Location incentives and the unintentional generation of employment instability: Some evidence from Israel

Annals of Regional Science

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 449-460

  Schwartz, Dafna ^a   Keren, Michael ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC GROWTH; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; INVESTMENT; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 33745221443     PISSN: 05701864     EISSN: 14320592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00168-006-0070-x     Document Type: Article

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