Unemployed Chinese workers: The survivors, the worried young and the discouraged old

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 416-430

  Price, Richard H ^a   Fang, Liluo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Chinese workers; Life course; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346736687     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585190110111459     Document Type: Article

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