Joining the European employment strategy: Europeanization of labour market policy in the Baltic states

Changing European Employment and Welfare Regimes: The Influence of the Open Method of Coordination on National Reforms

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 112-133

  Jacobsson, Kerstin ^a   West, Charlotte ^b  

^a SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NONE

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EID: 76749144791     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203878873     Document Type: Chapter

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