Self-employment and the local business cycle

Small Business Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 55-70

  Svaleryd, Helena ^a,b,c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UCLS   (Sweden)

^c UCFS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Local business cycle; Panel data; Self employment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939599012     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-014-9592-2     Document Type: Article

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