Underpaid and overworked: A cross-national perspective on care workers

International Labour Review

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 407-422

  Razavi, Shahra ^a   Staab, Silke ^a  

^a United Nations Research Institute for Social Development UNRISD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH WORKER; LABOR MARKET; MARKET CONDITIONS; OCCUPATION; RESEARCH WORK; SOCIAL POLICY;

EID: 79954990003     PISSN: 00207780     EISSN: 1564913X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1564-913X.2010.00095.x     Document Type: Article

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