Firm entry and exit in Italian provinces and the relationship with unemployment

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 171-186

  Carree, Martin ^a   Santarelli, Enrico ^b   Verheul, Ingrid ^c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Firm entry and exit; Italian provinces; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 43449131532     PISSN: 15547191     EISSN: 15551938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11365-007-0060-1     Document Type: Article

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