Do they bother? Employer training of temporary workers

Review of Social Economy

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 543-566

  Wiens Tuers, Barbara A ^a   Hill, Elizabeth T ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Informal training; Intermediated workers; Nonstandard work; On the job training; Temporary workers; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036983010     PISSN: 00346764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0034676022000028064     Document Type: Article

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