Service offshoring and white-collar employment

Review of Economic Studies

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 595-632

  Crinò, Rosario ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMAND ELASTICITY; EMPLOYMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; LABOR MARKET; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCCUPATION; SKILLED LABOR;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77950132004     PISSN: 00346527     EISSN: 1467937X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-937X.2009.586.x     Document Type: Article

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