Assisting the long-term unemployed: Results from a randomised trial

Economic Record

Volumn 79, Issue 244, 2003, Pages 84-102

  Breunig, Robert ^a   Dunlop, Yvonne ^b   Cobb Clark, Deborah A ^a   Terrill, Marion ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Dept of Family/Community Services ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INCOME DISTRIBUTION; REFORM PROCESS; SOCIAL POLICY; WELFARE REFORM;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0038643558     PISSN: 00130249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-4932.00080     Document Type: Article

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