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The entrepreneurial ladder and its determinants

Peter van der Zwan Centre for Advanced Small Business Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, the Netherlands and EIM Business and Policy Research, P.O. Box 7001, 2701 AA Zoetermeer, the Netherlands
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Roy Thurik Centre for Advanced Small Business Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, the Netherlands and EIM Business and Policy Research, P.O. Box 7001, 2701 AA Zoetermeer, the Netherlands; Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany and Free University AmsterdamCorrespondence[email protected]
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Isabel Grilo DG Enterprise, European Commission, B-1049, Brussels, Belgium, GREMARS, Université de Lille 3 and CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain
Pages 2183-2191 | Published online: 01 Feb 2008

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