Resource Scarcity and Prescriptive Attitudes Generate Subtle, Intergenerational Older-Worker Exclusion
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Social Issues
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0022-4537
DOI: 10.1111/josi.12159