Being independent is a great thing: Subjective evaluations of self-employment and hierarchy

Economica

Volumn 75, Issue 298, 2008, Pages 362-383

  Benz, Matthias ^a   Frey, Bruno S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INCOME; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; SELF EMPLOYMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 41849145413     PISSN: 00130427     EISSN: 14680335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0335.2007.00594.x     Document Type: Article

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