Self-employment and trade shock mitigation

Small Business Economics

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 45-56

  Liang, Jiaochen ^a   Goetz, Stephan J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic resilience; Entrepreneurship; Self employment; Trade shocks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953355919     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-015-9677-6     Document Type: Article

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