Inflow of foreign capital and trade liberalization in a model with an informal sector and urban unemployment

Pacific Economic Review

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 87-103

  Chaudhuri, Sarbajit ^a   Yabuuchi, Shigemi ^b   Mukhopadhyay, Ujjaini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UNEMPLOYMENT; URBAN AREA;

EID: 33645408298     PISSN: 1361374X     EISSN: 14680106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0106.2006.00301.x     Document Type: Article

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