Predicting successful and unsuccessful transitions from school to work by using sequence methods

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 317-334

  McVicar, Duncan ^a   Anyadike Danes, Michael ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Joblessness; Optimal matching; Sequences; Youth transitions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036428510     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00641     Document Type: Article

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