Employment trajectories: Exploring gender differences and impacts of drug use

Journal of Vocational Behavior

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 277-289

  Huang, David Y C ^a   Evans, Elizabeth ^a   Hara, Motoaki ^a   Weiss, Robert E ^b   Hser, Yih Ing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug use; Employment; Gender differences; Growth mixture modeling; Life course

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958063972     PISSN: 00018791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2010.12.001     Document Type: Article

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