Hunting for a job: How individual differences in foraging strategies influence the length of unemployment

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 305-315

  Wieczorkowska, Grazyna ^a   Burnstein, Eugene ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Foraging strategies; Individual differences; Poland; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 28744438602     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430204046140     Document Type: Article

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