Job guarantees for the unemployed: Lessons from Australian welfare reform

Journal of Social Policy

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 53-71

  Finn, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; SOCIAL SECURITY; UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT; WELFARE REFORM;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0032813315     PISSN: 00472794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047279499005462     Document Type: Article

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