Entrepreneurship, job creation and wage growth

Small Business Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 15-32

  Malchow Møller, Nikolaj ^a,b   Schjerning, Bertel ^c   Sørensen, Anders ^a  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurial establishments; Job creation; Wage growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650247383     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-009-9173-y     Document Type: Article

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