Geographical access to childcare and mothers' labour-force participation

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-74

  van Ham, Maarten ^a   Mulder, Clara H ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Childcare; Female labour force participation; Geographical access; GIS; Time space constraints

Indexed keywords

EID: 14644440833     PISSN: 0040747X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2005.00439.x     Document Type: Article

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