Chapter 22 Artistic Labor Markets: Contingent Work, Excess Supply and Occupational Risk Management

Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 765-811

  Menger, Pierre Michel ^a  

^a ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES   (France)

Author keywords

career; creativity; excess supply; labor markets; monopolistic competition; occupational choice; occupational risk management; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 66049146861     PISSN: 15740676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0676(06)01022-2     Document Type: Review

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