Employment options for low-income women: Microenterprise versus the labor market

Social Work Research

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 83-92

  Sanders, Cynthia K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Employment; Low income; Microenterprise; Poverty; Program evaluation; Women

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042822174     PISSN: 10705309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/swr/28.2.83     Document Type: Article

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