Bounded choices in work and retirement in Australia

Employee Relations

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 422-432

  Patrickson, Margaret ^a   Ranzijn, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Demographics; Employees; Older workers; Retirement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986144740     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425450410544515     Document Type: Article

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