Occupations an the cyclical behavior of gender unemployment rates

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 287-299

  Rives, Janet M ^a   Sosin, Kim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

Occupations; Recession; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036419260     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1053-5357(02)00127-0     Document Type: Article

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