The more business owners, the merrier? The role of tertiary education

Small Business Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 335-357

  van Praag, Mirjam ^a   van Stel, André ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b EIM Group   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

(Returns to) education; Business ownership; Cross country comparison; Human capital; Production function

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880042327     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-012-9436-x     Document Type: Article

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