Do foreign investors care about labor market regulations?

Review of World Economics

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 375-403

  Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska ^a   Spatareanu, Mariana ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Firm level data; Foreign direct investment; Labor market regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 28144453751     PISSN: 16102878     EISSN: 16102886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10290-005-0035-7     Document Type: Article

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