Work preparation and labor market experiences among urban, poor, nonresident fathers

Coping with Poverty: The Social Contexts of Neighborhood, Work, and Family in the African-American Community

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 224-261

  Johnson, Waldo E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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