Margins of multinational labor substitution

American Economic Review

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1999-2030

  Muendler, Marc Andreas ^a,b   Becker, Sascha O ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d CESIFO   (Germany)

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EID: 78650482502     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.100.5.1999     Document Type: Article

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