How Minnesota adopted workers' compensation

Independent Review

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 557-578

  Kantor, Shawn Everett ^a,b   Fishback, Price V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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