The role of labour cost in the location choices of Japanese investors in China

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 121-138

  Cheng, Shaoming ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Conditional logit model; FDI; Labour cost; Location choice

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; LABOR MARKET; LOCATION DECISION; LOGIT ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33745551752     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: 14355957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2006.00066.x     Document Type: Article

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