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The Role of Skills from Worklessness to Sustainable Employment with Progression: Annex Bibliography
Editors: Tim Bickerstaffe and David Devins
Author organisation: Policy Research Institute, Leeds Metropolitan
University
Editors:
Zoey Breuer, Research Manager and
Paul Drake, Senior Policy Analyst
UK Commission for Employment and Skills
September 2011
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