Do government subsidies stimulate training expenditure? Microeconometric evidence from plant-level data

Southern Economic Journal

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 860-876

  Görg, Holger ^a   Strobl, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

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EID: 33646698836     PISSN: 00384038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/20111857     Document Type: Article

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