Entrepreneurs and job growth: Probing the boundaries of time and space

Economic Development Quarterly

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 23-32

  Henderson, Jason ^a   Weiler, Stephan ^b  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurs; Innovation; Job growth; Rural; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; ENTREPRENEUR; INNOVATION; LABOR MARKET; RECRUITMENT (EMPLOYMENT); SPILLOVER EFFECT; URBANIZATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 73149098463     PISSN: 08912424     EISSN: 15523543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891242409350917     Document Type: Article

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