Foreign capital inflow, skilled–unskilled wage inequality and unemployment of unskilled labour in a fair wage model
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عنوان ژورنال: Economic Modelling
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0264-9993
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2009.10.015