Offshoring and the skill structure of labour demand

Review of World Economics

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 631-662

  Foster McGregor, Neil ^a   Stehrer, Robert ^a   de Vries, Gaaitzen J ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Labour demand; Offshoring; Trade; Wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888045032     PISSN: 16102878     EISSN: 16102886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10290-013-0163-4     Document Type: Article

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