Do labour strategies matter? An analysis of two enterprise-level data sets in china

International Journal of the Economics of Business

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 225-237

  Lane, Julia ^a,b   Feinberg, Robert M ^b   Broadman, Harry ^c  

^a URBAN INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese Enterprises; Goals Of The Firm; Labour Market Flexibility; Ownership

Indexed keywords

EID: 84995498685     PISSN: 13571516     EISSN: 14661829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13571510210134661     Document Type: Article

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