Does government matter?: The impact of occupational retraining, gender and ethnicity on immigrants' incorporation

Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 192-210

  Lerner, Miri ^a   Menahem, Gila ^a   Hisrich, Robert D ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurs; Government policy; Immigrants; Israel; Retraining

Indexed keywords

EID: 19944383206     PISSN: 14626004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14626000510594601     Document Type: Article

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