The extended business case for childcare and leave arrangements in Western and Eastern Europe

Baltic Journal of Management

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 156-184

  den Dulk, Laura ^a   Peters, Pascale ^b   Poutsma, Erik ^b   Ligthart, Paul E M ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Child care; Eastern Europe; Employers; Human resource management; Western Europe

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952390945     PISSN: 17465265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17465261011045106     Document Type: Article

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