Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs?
The paper uses a large representative sample of the German population to test the hypothesis that young and small firms are hothouses for nascent entrepreneurs. The study concludes that regions with young and small firms today will have them tomorrow and regions without a large population of hothouses for nascent entrepreneurs will not have much of them in the future.
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