Entrepreneurship and survival dynamics of immigrants to the U.S. and their descendants

Labour Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 161-170

  Georgarakos, Dimitris ^a   Tatsiramos, Konstantinos ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b IZA ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Business ownership; Duration analysis; Entrepreneurship; Immigrant status; Left truncation

Indexed keywords

EID: 60249097141     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2008.08.006     Document Type: Article

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