Attitudes toward risk and self-employment of young workers

Labour Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 434-442

  Ahn, Taehyun ^a  

^a Korea Labor Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Risk tolerance; Self employment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649341773     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2009.06.005     Document Type: Article

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