Skill supply, supervision requirements and unemployment of low-skilled labor

International Journal of Manpower

Volumn 22, Issue , 2001, Pages 69-83

  Falkinger, Josef ^a   Grossmann, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Labour; Supervision; Unemployment; Work organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035589893     PISSN: 01437720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01437720110386395     Document Type: Article

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