Housing wealth, liquidity constraints and self-employment

Labour Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 79-88

  Disney, Richard ^b   Gathergood, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Liquidity; Self employment; Windfalls

Indexed keywords

EID: 59649088568     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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