Technology and the size distribution of firms: Evidence from Dutch manufacturing

Review of Industrial Organization

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 303-328

  Marsili, Orietta ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Firm size; Gibrat's law; Innovation; Pareto distribution

Indexed keywords

FIRM SIZE; MANUFACTURING; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 31144445616     PISSN: 0889938X     EISSN: 15737160     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11151-005-5053-z     Document Type: Article

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