Private or public? How Dutch visual artists choose between working for the market and the government

Journal of Cultural Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-20

  Rengers, Merijn ^a,b   Plug, Erik ^c,d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Art subsidies; Artists' labor market; Winner takes all

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004943519     PISSN: 08852545     EISSN: 15736997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007670321446     Document Type: Article

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