Student work placements in small firms: Do they pay-off or shift tastes?

Small Business Economics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 125-144

  Fraser, Stuart ^a   Storey, David J ^a   Westhead, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Career preferences; Employment outcomes; Government subsidised training programmes; Selection bias; Small firms

Indexed keywords

EID: 30844473300     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-004-2438-6     Document Type: Article

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