Dependent self-employment as a way to evade employment protection legislation

Small Business Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 363-392

  Román, Concepción ^a   Congregado, Emilio ^a   Millán, José María ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Contracting out; Dependency; Entrepreneurship; Labour market institutions; Occupational choice; Self employment

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052923052     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-009-9241-3     Document Type: Article

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