Uncertain and unable to commit: A fourteen-country comparison of the impact of globalization on the early life course

Transitions from School to Work: Globalization, Individualization, and Patterns of Diversity

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 95-118

  Mills, Melinda ^a   Blossfeld, Hans Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511605369.005     Document Type: Chapter

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