Racial differences in self-employment exits

Small Business Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 169-186

  Ahn, Taehyun ^a  

^a Korea Labor Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Minority entrepreneurship; Self employment; Work history

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651507226     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-009-9209-3     Document Type: Article

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