Foreign outsourcing, labour demand and the choice of functional form

Journal of Applied Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 255-273

  Dumont, Michel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b International Management and Diplomacy ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Flexible cost function specification; Foreign outsourcing; Labour demand

Indexed keywords

EID: 34948897516     PISSN: 15140326     EISSN: 16676726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15140326.2006.12040647     Document Type: Article

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