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Applied Economics Letters Volume 16, 2009 - Issue 15
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Time allocation by the self-employed: the determinants of the number of working hours in start-ups

Martin Carree Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Maastricht, P.O. Box 616, Maastricht, 6200, MD, The NetherlandsCorrespondence[email protected]
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Ingrid Verheul Rotterdam School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, 3000 DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Pages 1511-1515 | Published online: 23 Sep 2009

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