The Changing Nature of Work among the Self-Employed in the 1990s: Evidence from Britain.
We use British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) data to examine the changing nature of work among the British self-employed in the 1990s. In the process we uncover several surprises and puzzles given the body of “received wisdom” about growing flexibility of work and employment patterns in that decade....
| Publicado en: | Journal of Labor Research Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 501 - 518 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
Summer 2005
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