GlobalIndex: A sociological approach to globalization measurement

International Sociology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Raab, Marcel ^a   Ruland, Michael ^a   Schönberger, Benno ^a   Blossfeld, Hans Peter ^a   Hofäcker, Dirk ^a   Buchholz, Sandra ^a   Schmelzer, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analyses of labour market processes; Cross national comparisons; Globalization; Index of globalization; Multi level analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 45749119494     PISSN: 02685809     EISSN: 14617242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0268580908090729     Document Type: Review

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