The economics of co-ethnic employment: Incentives, welfare effects and policy options

Handbook of Research on Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship: A Co-evolutionary View on Resource Management

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 42-60

  den Butter, Frank A G ^a   Masurel, Enno ^b   Mosch, Robert H J ^c  

^a TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c DE NEDERLANDSCHE BANK   (Netherlands)

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