Unemployment in Japan: Globalisation, restructuring and social change

Unemployment in Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 39-57

  Benson, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 34249664864     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203482933     Document Type: Chapter

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