Employability and New Zealand welfare restructuring

Policy and Politics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 473-494

  Lunt, Neil ^a,b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Employability; Labour market; New Zealand; Welfare reform

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN RESOURCE; LABOR MARKET; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; WELFARE REFORM;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 33746228135     PISSN: 03055736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1332/030557306777695271     Document Type: Article

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