Do the self-employed value autonomy more than employees?: Research across four samples

Career Development International

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 33-45

  Prottas, David ^a  

^a ADELPHI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Careers; Contract workers; Job satisfaction; Jobs; Self employed workers

Indexed keywords

EID: 38849093965     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13620430810849524     Document Type: Article

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