New evidence on the relationship between risk attitudes and self-employment

Labour Economics

Volumn 30, Issue , 2014, Pages 176-184

  Skriabikova, Olga J ^a   Dohmen, Thomas ^a,b   Kriechel, Ben ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intergenerational transmission of self employment and risk attitudes; Risk attitudes; Self employment; SOEP; ULMS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910097730     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2014.04.003     Document Type: Article

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