The Effects of Risk on Self-Employment

Small Business Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 515-522

  Parker, Simon C ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0031510999     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007919805306     Document Type: Article

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