Social care as first work experience in England: A secondary analysis of the profile of a national sample of migrant workers

Health and Social Care in the Community

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 89-97

  Hussein, Shereen ^a   Manthorpe, Jill ^a   Stevens, Martin ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Migrants; National dataset; Social care workforce; Statistical analysis; Workforce development

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MANPOWER; MIGRATION; SOCIAL WORK; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

EMPLOYMENT; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; SOCIAL WORK; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 78650152846     PISSN: 09660410     EISSN: 13652524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2524.2010.00957.x     Document Type: Article

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