"Phantom of the Opera" or "Sex and the City"? Historical amenities as sources of exogenous variation

Labour Economics

Volumn 37, Issue , 2015, Pages 93-98

  Bauer, Thomas K ^a   Breidenbach, Philipp ^a   Schmidt, Christoph M ^a,b  

^a RWI ^*  (Germany)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Historical amenities; Human capital; Regional competiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958641882     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2015.05.005     Document Type: Article

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