Risk, resilience, and life-course fit: Older couples’ encores following job loss

New Frontiers in Resilient Aging: Life-Strengths and Well-Being in Late Life

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 283-309

  Moen, Phyllis ^a,b,c   Sweet, Stephen ^d   Hill, Rachelle ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c Flexible Work and Well Being Center   (United States)

^d ITHACA COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 84926973960     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511763151.013     Document Type: Chapter

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