The toll of unemployment does not stop with the unemployed

Human Relations

Volumn 57, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 823-844

  Westman, Mina ^a   Etzion, Dalia ^a   Horovitz, Shoshi ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Govt Acad Employment Exch Office   (Israel)

Author keywords

Crossover; Economic hardship; Social support; State anxiety unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 3543011999     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726704045767     Document Type: Review

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