Employee attitudes, earnings and fixed-term contracts: International evidence

Review of World Economics

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 296-317

  Brown, Sarah ^b   Sessions, John G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Earnings and fixed term contracts; Employee attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746865549     PISSN: 16102878     EISSN: 16102886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10290-005-0029-5     Document Type: Article

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