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“The First One to Pick up the Phone”: Forms of Recruitment for Low-Skilled Jobs Cover

“The First One to Pick up the Phone”: Forms of Recruitment for Low-Skilled Jobs

By: Eva Nadai and  Robin Hübscher  
Open Access
|Jul 2022

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Published on: Jul 12, 2022
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