From controlling to constructive: Youth unemployment policy in Australia and the Netherlands

Journal of Social Policy

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-25

  Meijers, Frans ^a   Te Riele, Kitty ^b  

^a Meijers Onderzoek and Advies   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABOR MARKET; LABOR POLICY; UNEMPLOYMENT; YOUNG POPULATION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 1542751241     PISSN: 00472794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0047279403007256     Document Type: Article

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