EU facing the crisis: Social and employment policies in times of tight budgets

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 255-271

  Bieling, Hans Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

austerity policy; economic governance; employment policy; euro crisis; Financial crisis; social policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864071173     PISSN: 10242589     EISSN: 19967284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1024258912448591     Document Type: Article

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