Japan: Towards employment extension for older workers

Ageing Labour Forces: Promises and Prospects

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 40-61

  Oka, Masato ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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