Losers in market transition: The unemployed, the retired, and the disabled

European Sociological Review

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 103-122

  Verhoeven, Willem Jan ^a   Jansen, Wim ^b   Dessens, Jos ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 59449091388     PISSN: 02667215     EISSN: 14682672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcn037     Document Type: Article

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