Taxes, economic conditions and recent trends in male self-employment: A Canada-US comparison

Labour Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 507-544

  Schuetze, Herb J ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic conditions; H24; Income tax; J0; J4; Self employment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001157179     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-5371(00)00012-9     Document Type: Article

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