Unemployment and life satisfaction: A non-linear adaptation process

International Journal of Manpower

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 668-680

  Georgellis, Yannis ^a   Gregoriou, Andros ^a   Healy, Jerome ^b   Tsitsianis, Nikolaos ^c  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employees; Perception; Quality of life; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 55949117901     PISSN: 01437720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01437720810908956     Document Type: Article

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