Immigrant self-employment: Testing hypotheses about the role of origin- and host-country human capital and bonding and bridging social capital

Work and Occupations

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 181-208

  Kanas, Agnieszka ^a   van Tubergen, Frank ^a   van der Lippe, Tanja ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Human capital; Immigrants; Self employment; Social capital; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 69449091134     PISSN: 07308884     EISSN: 15528464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0730888409340128     Document Type: Article

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