A Selection-Based Theory of the Transition from Employment to Entrepreneurship: The Role of Employer Size
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Keywords
entrepreneurship; occupational choice; firm size;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
- J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
- J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2006-04-22 (Business Economics)
- NEP-ENT-2006-04-22 (Entrepreneurship)
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