Social Capital and Self-Employment: A Network Analysis Experiment and Several Considerations

International Sociology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 681-701+739

  Barbieri, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Network analysis; Self employed; Social capital; Social resources; Work attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345356295     PISSN: 02685809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0268580903184003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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