Introduction and overview

A Future of Good Jobs?: America's Challenge in the Global Economy

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-16

  Bartik, Timothy J ^a   Houseman, Susan N ^a  

^a WE Upjohn Institute for Employment Research   (United States)

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EID: 84873189114     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.17848/9781435641037.ch1     Document Type: Editorial

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