Are Britain's workplace skills becoming more unequal?

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 709-727

  Felstead, Alan ^a   Ashton, David ^a   Green, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Education; Inequality; Skills; Training

Indexed keywords

INCOME DISTRIBUTION; SKILLED LABOR; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; TRAINING; WORKPLACE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0033665494     PISSN: 0309166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cje/24.6.709     Document Type: Conference Paper

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