Does high unemployment rate result in a high divorce rate?: A test for Japan

Revista de Economia del Rosario

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 149-164

  Kawata, Yukichika ^a  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Marital dissolution; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 66149178802     PISSN: 01235362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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