Labour costs and FDI flows into Central and Eastern European Countries: A survey of the literature and empirical evidence

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-37

  Bellak, Christian ^a   Leibrecht, Markus ^a   Riedl, Aleksandra ^a  

^a Department of Economics ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Foreign Direct Investment; Gravity model; Transition economies; Unit labour costs

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL FLOW; COST; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; LOCATION DECISION; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 38149112701     PISSN: 0954349X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2007.03.001     Document Type: Article

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