Using self-employment as proxy for entrepreneurship: some empirical caveats
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1476-1297,1741-8054
DOI: 10.1504/ijesb.2012.049578