Opening the black box: The internal labor markets of company X

Industrial Relations

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 659-706

  Lin, Ming Jen ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; LABOR MARKET; WAGE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 30644462651     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2005.00407.x     Document Type: Review

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