Job creation, job destruction and the role of small firms: Firm-level evidence for the UK

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 621-647

  Hijzen, Alexander ^a   Upward, Richard ^b   Wright, Peter W ^b  

^a OECD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77955956397     PISSN: 03059049     EISSN: 14680084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0084.2010.00584.x     Document Type: Article

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