Who feels it knows it: Work attitudes and excess non-white unemployment in the UK

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 138-150

  Thomas, Jonathan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnic groups; UK; Unemployment spells; Work attitudes

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL INFLUENCE; ETHNIC DISPARITY; PUBLIC ATTITUDES; UNEMPLOYMENT; WORK ATTITUDES;

UK;

EID: 0031803625     PISSN: 01419870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014198798330133     Document Type: Article

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