The human capital dimension to foreign direct investment: Training, adverse selection, and firm location

Dynamics, Economic Growth, and International Trade

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 337-364

  Eicher, Theo S ^a   Kalaitzidakis, Pantelis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

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