Unemployment and workers' compensation programmes: Rationale, design, labour supply and income support

Fiscal Studies

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-49

  Meyer, Bruce D ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5890.2002.tb00053.x     Document Type: Article

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