Inter-agency cooperation and new approaches to employability

Social Policy and Administration

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 715-732

  Lindsay, Colin ^a   Mcquaid, Ronald W ^a   Dutton, Matthew ^a  

^a Craiglockhart Campus   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activation; Employability; Partnership; Pathways to Work; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

LABOR POLICY; MUTUALISM; PARTNERSHIP APPROACH; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 55949126237     PISSN: 01445596     EISSN: 14679515     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9515.2008.00634.x     Document Type: Article

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