Characteristics of migrant entrepreneurship in Europe

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 375-397

  Baycan Levent, Tüzin ^a   Nijkamp, Peter ^b  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Europe; Immigration; Migrant entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; ENTREPRENEUR; IMMIGRANT; IMMIGRATION; INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE; INFORMAL SECTOR; LABOR MARKET; MIGRANT WORKER; OECD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SELF EMPLOYMENT; UNEMPLOYMENT;

BENELUX; CENTRAL EUROPE; DENMARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; GREECE; ITALY; NETHERLANDS; NORTHERN EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SCANDINAVIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SWEDEN; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70449595950     PISSN: 08985626     EISSN: 14645114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08985620903020060     Document Type: Article

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