Why Is the U.S. Unemployment Rate so Much Lower?

NBER Macroeconomics Annual

Volumn 13, Issue , 1998, Pages

  Shimer, Robert ^a  

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EID: 0346872543     PISSN: 08893365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1086/ma.13.4623732     Document Type: Article

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