Worker Absenteeism Under Voluntary and Compulsory Sickness Insurance: Continental Europe, 1885-1908

Research in Economic History

Volumn 23, Issue , 2005, Pages 177-207

  Murray, John E ^a  

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EID: 33645845409     PISSN: 03633268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0363-3268(05)23005-7     Document Type: Review

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