Unemployment: Promises, Policies and Progress

Labour and Industry

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 103-122

  Burgess, John ^a   Mitchell, William ^a   O'Brien, Duncan ^a   Watts, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

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EID: 0012234341     PISSN: 10301763     EISSN: 23255676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10301763.1998.10669195     Document Type: Article

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