The best and the brightest or the least successful? Self-employment entry among male wage-earners in Sweden

Small Business Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 155-172

  Andersson Joona, Pernilla ^a,b   Wadensjö, Eskil ^a,b,c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Entrepreneurship; Occupational choice; Occupational mobility; Self employment entry; Self employment performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874213125     PISSN: 0921898X     EISSN: 15730913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-011-9365-0     Document Type: Article

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