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Evaluation of Self-Employment Development Factors: Latvian Case

Economics and Business
Volume 27 (2015): Issue 1 (August 2015)
By: Rita Remeikiene  
Open Access
|Nov 2015

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eb-2015-0001 | Journal eISSN: 2256-0394
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Language: English
Page range: 5 - 11
Published on: Nov 5, 2015
Published by: Riga Technical University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Macroeconomic factors of self-employment,
selfemployment,
self-employment barriers,
self-employment development
Related subjects:
Business and economics,
Political economics,
Political economics, other,
Business management,
Business management, other,
Mathematics and statistics for economists,
Statistics,
Econometrics

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