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

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  • Concepción Román

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  • Emilio Congregado
  • José Millán

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Article provided by Springer in its journal Small Business Economics.

Volume (Year): 37 (2011)
Issue (Month): 3 (October)
Pages: 363-392

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Handle: RePEc:kap:sbusec:v:37:y:2011:i:3:p:363-392

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Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Self-employment; Dependency; Contracting out; Occupational choice; Labour market institutions; J24; J38; J65; K31; L24; L26;

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  2. Emilio Congregado & Vicente Esteve & Antonio A. Golpe, 2012. "Job Creation and the Self-employed Firm Size: evidence from Spain," Working Papers 1202, Department of Applied Economics II, Universidad de Valencia.
  3. Congregado, Emilio & Golpe, Antonio A. & Carmona, Mónica, 2010. "Is it a good policy to promote self-employment for job creation? Evidence from Spain," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 32(6), pages 828-842, November.
  4. André van Stel & José Maria Millán & Concepcion Roman & Ana Millán, 2013. "How does employment protection legislation influence hiring and firing decisions by the smallest firms?," Scales Research Reports H201216, EIM Business and Policy Research.

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