Local Responses to Long-term Unemployment: Delivering Access to Employment in Edinburgh

Local Economy

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 159-173

  Lindsay, Colin ^a   Sturgeon, Garry ^b  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY OF EDINBURGH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0344197723     PISSN: 02690942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0269094032000061387     Document Type: Review

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