The impact of innovation activities on employment in the environmental sector - Empirical results for germany at the firm level

Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik

Volumn 230, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 403-419

  Horbach, Jens ^a  

^a AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Employment; Environmental sector; Innovation behaviour

Indexed keywords

EID: 78349238890     PISSN: 00214027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-2010-0403     Document Type: Article

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