Unemployment insurance eligibility before and after welfare reform

Journal of Poverty

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1-23

  Boushey, Heather ^a   Wenger, Jeffrey B ^b  

^a Center for Economic and Policy Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AFDC; Low wage labor market; TANF; Unemployment insurance; Welfare reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750175694     PISSN: 10875549     EISSN: 15407608     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J134v10n03_01     Document Type: Article

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