Tax structure and entrepreneurship

Small Business Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 165-190

  Baliamoune Lutz, Mina ^a   Garello, Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b University Aix Marseille   (France)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Panel data; Progressivity; Tax structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84891901444     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-013-9469-9     Document Type: Article

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