Steve Jobs or No Jobs? Entrepreneurial activity and performance among Danish college dropouts and graduates
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- Guido Buenstorf & Kristian Nielsen & Bram Timmermans, 2017. "Steve Jobs or No Jobs? Entrepreneurial activity and performance among Danish college dropouts and graduates," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 48(1), pages 179-197, January.
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entrepreneurship; higher education; college dropouts; returns to entrepreneurship;All these keywords.
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- L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
- I29 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Other
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENT-2016-09-11 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-SBM-2016-09-11 (Small Business Management)
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