Explaining Welfare Reform: Public Choice and the Labor Market

International Tax and Public Finance

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 289-315

  Moffitt, Robert A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Public choice; Public spending; Welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041156806     PISSN: 09275940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008782913069     Document Type: Article

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