Labour mobility and employment stability: Rhetoric and reality on the sex differential in labour-market behaviour

European Sociological Review

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-31

  Hakim, Catherine ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0030541672     PISSN: 02667215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a018171     Document Type: Article

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