Happily ever after? A study of job satisfaction in Australia

Economic Record

Volumn 81, Issue 255, 2005, Pages 303-321

  Long, Anthea ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; EMPLOYMENT; GENDER ISSUE; SKILLED LABOR; WOMENS STATUS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33745279606     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: 14754932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2005.00271.x     Document Type: Article

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