When do employees leave their job for entrepreneurship?

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-21

  Hyytinen, Ari ^a   Maliranta, Mika ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b Elinkeinoelaman Tutkimuslaitos   (Finland)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Mobility; Occupation choice

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ENTREPRENEUR; LABOR POLICY; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; OCCUPATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 43449095020     PISSN: 03470520     EISSN: 14679442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2008.00522.x     Document Type: Article

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