Low-wage labor and the geography of production: A qualified defense of the "pauper labor argument"

Review of Radical Political Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 228-236

  Larudee, Mehrene ^a   Koechlin, Timothy ^b,c  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital mobility; FDI; Offshore; Productivity; Unit labor cost

Indexed keywords

EID: 49449092115     PISSN: 04866134     EISSN: 15528502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0486613408319919     Document Type: Article

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