Intention to leave the job among live-in foreign home care workers in Israel

Home Health Care Services Quarterly

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 22-36

  Ayalon, Liat ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Domestic care; Globalization; Long term care; Migration; Retention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOME CARE; HUMAN; ISRAEL; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIGRATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PHILIPPINES; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOME HEALTH AIDES; HUMANS; INTENTION; ISRAEL; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONNEL TURNOVER; PHILIPPINES; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 77953503329     PISSN: 01621424     EISSN: 15450856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621424.2010.487037     Document Type: Article

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