Unemployment and entrepreneurship: A cyclical relation?

Economics Letters

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 318-320

  Faria, João Ricardo ^a   Cuestas, Juan Carlos ^b   Gil Alana, Luis A ^c  

^a University of Texas at El Paso   (United States)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cycles; Employment creation; New firms

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350746181     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2009.09.004     Document Type: Article

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