Ethnic differences in women's labour market activity

Women and Employment: Changing Lives and New Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 81-106

  Dale, Angela ^a   Lindley, Joanne ^b   Dex, Shirley ^c   Rafferty, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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