Incentives to work: Replacement ratios and the cost of job loss among indigenous Australians

Australian Economic Review

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 219-236

  Daly, Anne ^a   Hunter, Boyd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; JOB SEARCH; WELFARE PROVISION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0032756177     PISSN: 00049018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8462.00110     Document Type: Article

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