Do Entrepreneurs Create Jobs?

Small Business Economics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 137-148

  Fölster, Stefan ^a  

^a Swedish Research Institute of Trade   (Sweden)

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EID: 0034394406     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008141516160     Document Type: Article

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