Foreign Ownership and Wages: Evidence from Hungary, 1986–2008
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Ownership and wages : Estimating public - private and foreign - domestic differentials with LEED from Hungary , 1986 - 2003
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: ILR Review
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0019-7939,2162-271X
DOI: 10.1177/0019793917700087