The value of employer-sponsored child care to employees

Industrial Relations

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 759-792

  Connelly, Rachel ^a   Degraff, Deborah S ^a   Willis, Rachel A ^b  

^a BOWDOIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD CARE; CONTINGENT VALUATION; EMPLOYMENT; WILLINGNESS TO PAY; WORKING CONDITIONS;

EID: 7644223880     PISSN: 00198676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0019-8676.2004.00361.x     Document Type: Article

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