Multinationals, intra‐firm trade and employment volatility
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Language, ethnicity and intrafirm trade
☆ The authors benefitted from the helpful suggestions b Behfar, AlanBeckenstein, JohnMclaren, Ariell Reshef, Jame Pravin Krishna (who saw an earlier version of the paper) Peter Debaere received research funds from the Darden F ⁎ Corresponding author at: Darden School of Business States. Tel.: +1 434 243 2339; fax: +1 434 243 7678. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (P. (H. Lee), jle...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0008-4085,1540-5982
DOI: 10.1111/caje.12452