The internal labour market and the employment of temporary help workers in Spain

Personnel Review

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 378-396

  Matías Reche, Fernando ^a,b   Fuentes Fuentes, Maria Mar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Internal labour market; Recruitment; Spain; Temporary workers; Training

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745460022     PISSN: 00483486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00483480610670562     Document Type: Review

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