Extending working life: Problems and prospects for social and public policy

Social Policy Review 18: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 220-248

  Phillipson, Chris ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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