Self-employment duration in urban and rural locations

Applied Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 2449-2461

  Haapanen, Mika ^a   Tervo, Hannu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; LABOR MARKET; LABOR STANDARD; RURAL AREA; SELF EMPLOYMENT; URBAN AREA;

FINLAND;

EID: 78649704123     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840802360278     Document Type: Article

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