Labour market segmentation and unemployment duration

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 549-553

  Theodossiou, I ^a,b   Yannopoulos, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; LABOR MARKET; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 0031757046     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/758529497     Document Type: Article

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