Prisoners' labour market history and aspirations: A focus on Western Australia

Economic Record

Volumn 83, Issue 260, 2007, Pages 31-45

  Giles, Margaret ^a   Le, Anh Trem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; LABOR MARKET;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33846905977     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: 14754932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2007.00374.x     Document Type: Article

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