Immigration, in-migration, ethnicity and entrepreneurship in the United Kingdom

Small Business Economics

Volumn 28, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 143-169

  Levie, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Ethnicity; Immigration; Migration

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847363595     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-006-9013-2     Document Type: Article

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