Who do High-growth Firms Employ, and Who do they Hire?
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Keywords
Gazelles; firm growth; rapid firm growth; high-impact firms;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
- L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance
- L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2011-07-13 (Business Economics)
- NEP-CSE-2011-07-13 (Economics of Strategic Management)
- NEP-ENT-2011-07-13 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-HME-2011-07-13 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-LAB-2011-07-13 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2011-07-13 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-SBM-2011-07-13 (Small Business Management)
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