Windfalls, wealth, and the transition to self-employment

Small Business Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 407-428

  Georgellis, Yannis ^a   Sessions, John G ^b   Tsitsianis, Nikolaos ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Self employment; Transitions; Windfalls

Indexed keywords

EID: 28244439222     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-004-6477-9     Document Type: Article

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