Temporary employment and employability: Training opportunities and efforts of temporary and permanent employees in Belgium

Work, Employment and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 641-666

  Forrier, Anneleen ^a   Sels, Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Agency work; Employability; Fixed term contracts; Funding of training; Participation in training; Temporary work; Training objectives

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348199318     PISSN: 09500170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0950017003174003     Document Type: Article

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