Embracing the Market: Entry into Self-Employment in Transitional China, 1978-1996
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Keywords
Market; Rural China; Self-employment; Transition; and Urban China;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J4 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets
- J40 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - General
- J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENT-2003-02-18 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-GEO-2003-02-18 (Economic Geography)
- NEP-HIS-2003-02-18 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-LAB-2003-02-18 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-TRA-2003-02-18 (Transition Economics)
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