Bridging social networks and female labor-force participation in a multiethnic metropolis

Urban Geography

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 3-30

  Johnson, James H ^a   Bienenstock, Elisa Jayne ^b   Farrell, Walter C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABOR MARKET; LABOR PARTICIPATION; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032950136     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.20.1.3     Document Type: Article

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