Factor substitution and complementarity in the Asia airport industry

Journal of Air Transport Management

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 261-266

  Low, Joyce M W ^a   Tang, Loon Ching ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Airport operations efficiency; Elasticities of factor substitutions; Outsourcing

Indexed keywords

AIRPORT; CAPITAL; LABOR; OUTSOURCING;

ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 33747336269     PISSN: 09696997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2006.07.003     Document Type: Article

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