Why do employers give discretion? Family versus performance concerns

Industrial Relations

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-26

  Ortega, Jaime ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE STRATEGY; EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY STRUCTURE; LABOR PARTICIPATION; LABOR RELATIONS; TIME ALLOCATION; WOMENS STATUS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 57749111734     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: 1468232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2008.00543.x     Document Type: Article

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