Employment and life-satisfaction: Insights from Ireland

Economic and Social Review

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 207-234

  Brereton, Finbarr ^a   Clinch, J Peter ^a   Ferreira, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; GENDER ISSUE; INCOME; INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION; LABOR; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 61349139528     PISSN: 00129984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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