Job creation through public start-up assistance?

Applied Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 2015-2024

  Almus, Matthias ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC IMPACT; EMPLOYMENT; ENTREPRENEUR; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; LABOR POLICY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 5044220138     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0003684042000201802     Document Type: Article

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