Corporate pollution control strategies and labor demand: evidence from China’s manufacturing sector

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 53 Số 3 - Trang 298-326 - 2018
Mengdi Liu1, Bing Zhang1, Qiang Geng2
1State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
2School of Business, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

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