Women's employment and public sector restructuring: The case of urban China

Unemployment in China: Economy, Human Resources and Labour Markets

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 87-107

  Dong, Xiao yuan ^a   Jiangchun, Yang ^b   Fenglian, Du ^c   Ding, Sai ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^b National Bureau of Statistics of China   (China)

^c INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (China)

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EID: 84909364871     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203967638     Document Type: Chapter

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