Employing the unemployed: Some case study evidence on the role and practice of employers

Urban Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 245-256

  Devins, David ^a   Hogarth, Terence ^b  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABOR MARKET; RECRUITMENT; SPATIAL MISMATCH; UNEMPLOYMENT; URBAN ECONOMY;

EID: 13444301144     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0042098042000316128     Document Type: Article

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