Employment, family union and childbearing decisions in Great Britain

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 781-804

  Aassve, Arnstein ^a,d   Burgess, Simon ^b   Propper, Carol ^b   Dickson, Matt ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

British Household Panel Survey; Employment; Fertility; Marriage; Simultaneous hazards

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748782503     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2006.00432.x     Document Type: Review

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