Payroll taxes and the decision to be self-employed

International Tax and Public Finance

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 31-53

  Stabile, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Payroll taxes; Self employed

Indexed keywords

EID: 3542991516     PISSN: 09275940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ITAX.0000004776.42301.76     Document Type: Article

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