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Foreign direct investment and wage inequality: is skill upgrading the culprit?

Akinori Tomohara University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Department of International Politics, Economics and Communication, Aoyama Gakuin University, 4-4-25 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, JapanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Kazuhiko Yokota School of Commerce, Waseda University, 1-6-1, Nishiwaseda, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 189-8050, Japan
Pages 773-781 | Published online: 10 Feb 2011

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