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wage rates and international trade finds 739 sources including
MINIMUM WAGE RATES AND PURE THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE
Author(s)BRECHER, RA
Source: QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS 1974 Volume: 88 Issue: 1 Pages: 98-116
Cited by (10) within the database Econlit
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Web of Science
Above article cited 139 times, the most recent in 2012.
TARIFFS, FOREIGN CAPITAL AND IMMISERIZING GROWTH
Author(s) Brecher, RA, Diaz, Alejandro, CF
Source:
Q J ECON
7, Issue 4, November 1977, Pages 317-322
Cited by (6) in EconLit
Cited in Web of Science 154 time and in Scopus 93 times.
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Canada
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Minimum Wage Database
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International House Price Database
Real-Time Historical Dataset for the OECD
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China Data Online
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Universal Database of Russian and CIS Statistics
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International
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- odesi - a digital repository for social science data.
Data Library of Kenneth R. French - Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is an expert on the behavior of security prices and investment strategies.
American Economic Association Data & Resources
Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 189 countries/territories for some or all of the years 1950-2010.
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- Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) Links to other projects that are ongoing in digitizing dissertations.
Search OMNI for academic dissertations
- Revising your dissertation: advice from leading editors LB2369.R49 2008
- Surviving Your Dissertation: A Comprehensive Guide to Content and Process. 3rd ed. LB2369.R83 2007
- Demystifying Dissertation Writing: A Streamlined Process from Choice of Topic to Final Text. LB2369.S55 2010
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Citation Help
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- Citing Data & Statistics