Entrepreneurship and unemployment in the UK

Scottish Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 264-290

  Thurik, Roy ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTREPRENEUR; LABOR MARKET; OECD; UNEMPLOYMENT;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0041819770     PISSN: 00369292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9485.5003001     Document Type: Article

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