Job creation and job destruction in Greek manufacturing

Review of Development Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 289-301

  Voulgaris, Fotini ^a   Papadogonas, Theodore ^b   Agiomirgianakis, George ^c  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^c HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; LABOR MARKET; MANUFACTURING;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

DROMAIUS NOVAEHOLLANDIAE;

EID: 18944377135     PISSN: 13636669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2005.00277.x     Document Type: Article

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