Studies of the labour supply of Australian women: What have we learned?

Economic Record

Volumn 81, Issue 252, 2005, Pages 65-84

  Birch, Elisa Rose ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LABOR SUPPLY; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 17144407663     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2005.00211.x     Document Type: Article

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