Assessing Job Search Intensity and Unemployment-Related Attitudes among Young Adults: Intergender Differences

Journal of Career Assessment

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 153-167

  Kulik, Liat ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attitudes toward unemployment; Job search intensity; Nonfinancial commitment to work; Reasons for rejecting jobs; Young adults

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035593833     PISSN: 10690727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/106907270100900204     Document Type: Article

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