Tourism employment: Contingent work or professional career?

Employee Relations

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 115-129

  Hjalager, Anne Mette ^a   Andersen, Steen ^b  

^a Advance/1   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Denmark; Employees; Professionalisation; Staff turnover; Tourism; Vocational training

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986180766     PISSN: 01425455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01425450110384165     Document Type: Article

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