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Enterpreneurial Interest, Vision and the Self-Employment Choice Decisions in UK Regions
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Abstract This paper takes a standard model of self-employment choice and extends it to allow for differences in the potential for self-employment amongst employees. Both the standard model and the ‘sequential’ model are estimated on a UK dataset, with allowance for regional variations. The sequential model o... view more
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Classification
Employment Research
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Document language
English
Publication Year
2009
Page/Pages
p. 1075-1090
Journal
Regional Studies, 43 (2009) 8
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400802070878
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)