Using self-employment as proxy for entrepreneurship: Some empirical caveats

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 290-303

  Bjuggren, Carl Magnus ^a,b   Johansson, Dan ^c,d   Stenkula, Mikael ^e  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

^c HUI Research   (Sweden)

^d DALARNA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS IFN   (Sweden)

Author keywords

COMParative ENtrepreneurship Data for International Analysis; COMPENDIA; Entrepreneurship; GEINDEX; Global entrepreneurship index; High impact entrepreneurship; Labour Force Survey; LFS; RAMS; Self employed; Self employment; Sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867808709     PISSN: 14761297     EISSN: 17418054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJESB.2012.049578     Document Type: Article

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