Entrepreneurship and its regional development: Do self-employment ratios converge and does gender matter?

The Entrepreneurial Society: How to Fill the Gap Between Knowledge and Innovation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 54-76

  Bögenhold, Dieter ^a   Fachinger, Uwe ^b  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOLZANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VECHTA   (Germany)

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