Adaptability and self-management: A new ethic of employability for the young unemployed?

Journal of Social Policy

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 607-621

  Worth, Sean ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; LABOR MARKET; LABOR PARTICIPATION; YOUNG POPULATION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0344925877     PISSN: 00472794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047279403007116     Document Type: Article

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