Foreign firms and Chinese employment

World Economy

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 178-201

  Karlsson, Sune ^a   Lundin, Nannan ^b   Sjöholm, Fredrik ^a,b   He, Ping ^c  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS IFN   (Sweden)

^c National Bureau of Statistics   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; EMPLOYMENT; FIRM SIZE; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; GROWTH RATE; INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT; INVESTMENT LOCATION; MANUFACTURING; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; SPILLOVER EFFECT; STATE OWNED ENTERPRISE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 59549104381     PISSN: 03785920     EISSN: 14679701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9701.2009.01162.x     Document Type: Article

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