Sketching a socio-economic model of labour markets

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 15-38

  Fleetwood, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical realism; Labour markets; Socio economics

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; LABOR MARKET; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS;

EID: 78651461465     PISSN: 0309166X     EISSN: 14643545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cje/beq006     Document Type: Article

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