The industry employability index: Taking account of supply and demand characteristics

International Labour Review

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 211-233

  de Grip, Andries ^a   van Loo, Jasper ^a   Sanders, Jos ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; INDEX METHOD; LABOR MARKET; MARKET CONDITIONS;

EID: 3042831181     PISSN: 00207780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1564-913x.2004.tb00269.x     Document Type: Article

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