Feature: Flexible Forms of Employment: Boon and Bane

Economic Journal

Volumn 122, Issue 562, 2012, Pages

  Jahn, Elke J ^a   Riphahn, Regina T ^b   Schnabel, Claus ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH IAB   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC POLICY; EMPLOYMENT; LABOR MARKET; PRODUCTIVITY; TRADE-OFF;

EUROPE;

EID: 84865279261     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2012.02532.x     Document Type: Article

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