Entrepreneurship and unemployment: A nonlinear bidirectional causality?

Economic Modelling

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1282-1291

  Faria, João Ricardo ^a   Cuestas, Juan Carlos ^b   Mourelle, Estefanía ^c  

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

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Causality; Employment creation; New firms; Nonlinearities; STAR EXT

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955086558     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2010.01.022     Document Type: Article

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