Volume 32 - Article 22 | Pages 657–690  

The timing of family commitments in the early work career: Work-family trajectories of young adults in Flanders

By Suzana Koelet, Helga de Valk, Ignace Glorieux, Ilse Laurijssen, Didier Willaert

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