Indirect employment effects of new business formation across regions: The role of local market conditions

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 361-382

  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; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); EMPLOYMENT; ENTREPRENEUR; MARKET CONDITIONS; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; REGIONAL ECONOMY;

EID: 84878428947     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: 14355957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2012.00475.x     Document Type: Article

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