Antecedents of older workers' motives for continuing to work

Career Development International

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 479-500

  Templer, Andrew ^a   Armstrong Stassen, Marjorie ^a   Cattaneo, Julian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Career satisfaction; Employment; Older workers; Self employed workers

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957051047     PISSN: 13620436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13620431011075349     Document Type: Article

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