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From unemployment to self-employment: The role of entrepreneurship training

IZA Journal of Labor Policy
Volume 10 (2020): Issue 1 (March 2020)
By: Marios Michaelides and  Scott Davis  
Open Access
|Dec 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/izajolp-2020-0018 | Journal eISSN: 2193-9004
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Language: English
Published on: Dec 17, 2020
Published by: Sciendo
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Great Recession,
self-employment,
entrepreneurship,
start-up,
small business,
entrepreneurship training,
unemployment,
policy evaluation,
reemployment
Related subjects:
Business and economics,
Political economics,
Microeconomics,
Macroeconomics,
Economic policy,
Mathematics and statistics for economists,
Econometrics

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