Urban Employment in Small Businesses and the Level of Economic Development: Evidence from Chinese Cities

Growth and Change

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 53-71

  Moreno Monroy, Ana I ^a   Yu, Shu ^b   Euse, Victoria ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c Novo Nordisk FemCare AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EMPLOYMENT; MANUFACTURING; SERVICE SECTOR; SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISE; URBAN ECONOMY;

CHINA;

EID: 84960490428     PISSN: 00174815     EISSN: 14682257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/grow.12120     Document Type: Article

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