Contract type, perceived mobility and optimism as antecedents of perceived employability

Economic and Industrial Democracy

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 435-453

  Kirves, Kaisa ^a,b   Kinnunen, Ulla ^a   De Cuyper, Nele ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Optimism; perceived employability; perceived mobility; temporary work

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902456522     PISSN: 0143831X     EISSN: 14617099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0143831X13486702     Document Type: Article

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