Australia's unemployment problem

Economic Record

Volumn 76, Issue 232, 2000, Pages 74-104

  Le, Anh T ^a   Miller, Paul W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABOR MARKET; UNEMPLOYMENT; WAGE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0034117895     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2000.tb00006.x     Document Type: Article

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