Globalization, Unemployment and Policy Responses in Korea: Repositioning the State?

Global Social Policy

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 213-234

  Kwon, Huck Ju ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

globalization; Korea; models of state intervention; unemployment policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993734243     PISSN: 14680181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/146801810100100204     Document Type: Article

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