Scarred from the past or afraid of the future? Unemployment and job satisfaction across European labour markets

International Journal of Human Resource Management

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1096-1112

  Lange, Thomas ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

European labour markets; job insecurity; job satisfaction; ordinal probit regression; unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874463478     PISSN: 09585192     EISSN: 14664399     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09585192.2012.706819     Document Type: Article

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