Do welfare-to-work programmes work for long?

Fiscal Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 27-53

  Greenberg, David ^a   Ashworth, Karl ^b   Cebulla, Andreas ^b   Walker, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 2442709082     PISSN: 01435671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-5890.2004.tb00095.x     Document Type: Article

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