Why Do Firms Disintegrate? Towards an Understanding of the Firm Level Decision to Sub-Contract and Its Impact on Labor

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Why Do Firms Disintegrate? Towards an Understanding of the Firm Level Decision to Sub-Contract and Its Impact on Labor

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Asad Sayeed (Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research)
Radhika Balakrishnan (Marymount Manhattan College)

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Paper provided by Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA), The New School in its series SCEPA Working Papers with number 2002-12.

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