Alternative job search strategies in remote rural and peri-urban labour markets: The role of social netwoks

Sociologia Ruralis

Volumn 45, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 52-70

  Lindsay, Colin ^a   Greig, Malcolm ^a   McQuaid, Ronald W ^a  

^a EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JOB SEARCH; LABOR MARKET; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL NETWORK;

EID: 17644380957     PISSN: 00380199     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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