Persistent unemployment and passive policies: Politics and institutional change in post-communist Poland

Human Relations

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1467-1491

  Brown, Dana L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Change; Employment law; Labour markets; Learning; Organizational culture; Trade unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348877348     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726707083472     Document Type: Article

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