Dynamic properties of the welfare caseload

Labour Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 629-648

  Haider, Steven J ^a   Klerman, Jacob Alex ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic models; Half life; Markov chain models; Welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 26944437054     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2004.01.006     Document Type: Article

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