Self-employment rents: Evidence from job satisfaction scores

Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-45

  Kawaguchi, Daiji ^a  

^a HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Job satisfaction; Self employment

Indexed keywords

EID: 50249158494     PISSN: 0018280X     EISSN: 2436097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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