Gender, occupational, and age cohort consequences of the industrial transformation, 1980-1990

Social Science Research

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 310-333

  Elesh, David ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohorts; Gender consequences; Industrial change; Occupational change

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036710095     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0049-089X(02)00003-0     Document Type: Article

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