Characteristics of self-employment among university graduates

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1065-1071

  Falk, Martin ^a   Leoni, Thomas ^a  

^a AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH WIFO   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; CITIZENSHIP; ENTREPRENEUR; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF EMPLOYMENT; UNIVERSITY SECTOR;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 68049115503     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504850701335319     Document Type: Article

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