Employment effects of privatisation and foreign acquisition of Chinese state-owned enterprises

International Journal of the Economics of Business

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 197-214

  Gong, Yundan ^a   Görg, Holger ^a   Maioli, Sara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

China; FDI; Labour demanding; Matching; Privatisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249883295     PISSN: 13571516     EISSN: 14661829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13571510701343972     Document Type: Article

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