Pecuniary and non-pecuniary aspects of self-employment survival

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 94-112

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

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b a joint workplace of Charles University and the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Job satisfaction; Self employment; Survival

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846502624     PISSN: 10629769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.qref.2006.03.002     Document Type: Article

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