Regional unemployment, gender, and time allocation of the unemployed

Review of Economics of the Household

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 105-127

  Gimenez Nadal, J Ignacio ^a   Molina, Jose Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Gender; Regional unemployment rates; Time use; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895180614     PISSN: 15695239     EISSN: 15737152     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11150-013-9186-9     Document Type: Article

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