Self-employment transitions and alternation in Finnish rural and urban labour markets

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 55-76

  Tervo, Hannu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Alternation; Labour markets; Markovian analysis; Self employment dynamics; Urban and rural

Indexed keywords

LABOR MARKET; MARKET TRANSITION; MARKOV CHAIN; MODELING; RURAL-URBAN COMPARISON; SELF EMPLOYMENT; WORKING CONDITIONS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 41949105399     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: 14355957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2007.00150.x     Document Type: Article

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