On one's own: Self-employment activity in Taiwan

The Reemergence of Self-Employment: A Comparative Study of Self-Employment Dynamics and Social Inequality

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 388-425

  Yu, Wei Hsin ^a   Su, Kuo Hsien ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOCIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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