The Consumption Smoothing Benefits of Unemployment Insurance

American Economic Review

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 192-205

  Gruber, Jonathan ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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