Direct payments and the employment relationship: Some insights from cross-national research

Developments in Direct Payments

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 205-220

  Ungerson, Clare ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

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