Foreign direct investment and wages in domestic firms in Ireland: Productivity spillovers versus labour-market crowding out

International Journal of the Economics of Business

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-84

  Barry, Frank ^a   Görg, Holger ^b   Strobl, Eric ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

Author keywords

Crowding Out; FDI; Labour Market; Spillovers

Indexed keywords

EID: 13944269956     PISSN: 13571516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1357151042000323102     Document Type: Review

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