Investigating the anatomy of the employment effect of new business formation

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 349-377

  Fritsch, Michael ^a   Noseleit, Florian ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Indirect effects; New business formation; Regional development

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; ENTREPRENEUR; LABOR POLICY; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84874762661     PISSN: 0309166X     EISSN: 14643545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cje/bes030     Document Type: Article

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