Fragmentation, incomes and jobs: An analysis of european competitiveness

Economic Policy

Volumn 28, Issue 76, 2013, Pages 613-661

  Timmer, Marcel P ^a   Los, Bart ^a   Stehrer, Robert ^b   de Vries, Gaaitzen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVENESS; ECONOMIC RELATIONS; EXPORT; FRAGMENTATION; GLOBAL ECONOMY; GLOBALIZATION; INCOME; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; MANUFACTURING; SKILLED LABOR;

EUROPE;

EID: 84885444519     PISSN: 02664658     EISSN: 14680327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0327.12018     Document Type: Article

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