Location choice and employment decisions: A comparison of German and Swedish multinationals

Review of World Economics

Volumn 141, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 693-731

  Becker, Sascha O ^a   Ekholm, Karolina ^b   Jäckle, Robert ^b   Muendler, Marc Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Labor demand; Location choice; Multinational enterprises; Multinomial choice; Translog cost function

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746898198     PISSN: 16102878     EISSN: 16102886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10290-005-0052-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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