Employee benefits: Literature review and emerging issues

Human Resource Management Review

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 86-103

  Dulebohn, James H ^a   Molloy, Janice C ^a   Pichler, Shaun M ^a   Murray, Brian ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Employee benefits; Health care; Pension; Retirement; Work family

Indexed keywords

EID: 62049084967     PISSN: 10534822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrmr.2008.10.001     Document Type: Article

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