Wage Inequality and Underemployment: Australia in the 1990S

Journal of Industrial Relations

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 88-107

  Watson, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 84879485879     PISSN: 00221856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1472-9296.00038     Document Type: Article

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