The spike at benefit exhaustion: Leaving the unemployment system or starting a new job?

American Economic Review

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 113-118

  Card, David ^a   Chetty, R A J ^a   Weber, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 34547312766     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.97.2.113     Document Type: Conference Paper

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