Barriers To Entry And Returns To Capital In Informal Activities: Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa

Review of Income and Wealth

Volumn 57, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Grimm, Michael ^a   Krüger, Jens ^b   Lay, Jann ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Entry barriers; Informal enterprises; Returns to capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955746328     PISSN: 00346586     EISSN: 14754991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4991.2011.00453.x     Document Type: Article

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