'Taking on almost everyone?' Migrant and employer recruitment strategies in a booming labour market

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1871-1887

  Moriarty, Elaine ^a   Wickham, James ^a   Krings, Torben ^b   Salamonska, Justyna ^a   Bobek, Alicja ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

boom labour market; employers; EU enlargement; migrant workers; recruitment strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859348790     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2011.610338     Document Type: Article

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