The income consequences of ethnic entrepreneurial concentrations

Urban Geography

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 554-576

  Razin, Eran ^a   Light, Ivan ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTREPRENEUR; ETHNIC MINORITY; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; SELF EMPLOYMENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032405828     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.19.6.554     Document Type: Article

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