The return-to-entrepreneurship puzzle

Labour Economics

Volumn 20, Issue , 2013, Pages 57-67

  Hyytinen, Ari ^a   Ilmakunnas, Pekka ^b   Toivanen, Otto ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Earnings; Entrepreneurship; Monetary returns; Non monetary returns; Selection; Twin data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873137676     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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