Creating jobs through public subsidies: An empirical analysis

Labour Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1179-1199

  Girma, Sourafel ^a   Görg, Holger ^a   Strobl, Eric ^b   Walsh, Frank ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Grants; labour demand; multinationals

Indexed keywords

EID: 55249086742     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2007.11.002     Document Type: Article

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