Family background and the propensity for self-employment

Industrial Relations

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 377-392

  Hundley, Greg ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; PATERNAL EFFECT; SELF EMPLOYMENT;

EID: 33745211233     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2006.00429.x     Document Type: Article

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