Self-employment matching: An analysis of dual earner couples and working households

Small Business Economics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 155-172

  Brown, Sarah ^a   Farrel, Lisa ^b   Sessions, John G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dual Earner Couples; Performance Related Pay; Random Effects Ordered Probit Model; Self employment

Indexed keywords

EID: 30844447183     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-004-6489-5     Document Type: Article

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