Employment effects of service offshoring: Evidence from matched firms

Economics Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 253-256

  Crinò, Rosario ^a  

^a Barcelona)   (Spain)

Author keywords

Employment; Propensity score matching; Sensitivity analysis; Service offshoring; Skills

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950939561     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2010.01.039     Document Type: Article

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