The Importance of Being in Control of Business: Work Satisfaction of Employers, Own-account Workers and Employees
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Keywords
entrepreneurship; self-employment; employers; own-account workers; work satisfaction;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- J28 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Safety; Job Satisfaction; Related Public Policy
- L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship
- O52 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Europe
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ACC-2015-04-25 (Accounting & Auditing)
- NEP-ENT-2015-04-25 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-HAP-2015-04-25 (Economics of Happiness)
- NEP-HRM-2015-04-25 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
- NEP-IUE-2015-04-25 (Informal & Underground Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2015-04-25 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, & Wages)
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