Evaluating special measures for the unemployed: Some reflections on recent UK experience

Policy and Politics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 173-184

  Fletcher, Del Roy ^a  

^a SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC POLICY; LABOUR POLICY; LONG TERM UNEMPLOYMENT; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; UNEMPLOYMENT;

UK;

EID: 0030856723     PISSN: 03055736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1332/030557397782453318     Document Type: Review

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