Richard E. Caves, Matthew B. Krepps, Michelle J. White, Henry Farber, Fat: The Displacement of Nonproduction Workers from U.S. Manufacturing Industries, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Microeconomics, Vol. 1993, No. 2 (1993), pp. 227-288
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