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Employment Systems in Labour-Intensive Activities: The Case of Retailing in France

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The retail trade is one of the largest and most labour-intensive sectors of the economy. In the European Union it employs around 14 million people, or more than 9 per cent of the gainfully employed population (Jany-Catrice and Lehndorff, 2004). In France this sector accounts for 8.8 per cent of total employment.1

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Stephen Bazen Claudio Lucifora Wiemer Salverda

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© 2005 Florence Jany-Catrice, Nicole Gadrey and Martine Pernod

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Jany-Catrice, F., Gadrey, N., Pernod, M. (2005). Employment Systems in Labour-Intensive Activities: The Case of Retailing in France. In: Bazen, S., Lucifora, C., Salverda, W. (eds) Job Quality and Employer Behaviour. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230378643_9

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