The unemployment effects of proposed changes in social security's "normal retirement age"

Business Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 38-46

  Michello, Franklin ^a   Ford, William ^a  

^a MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

NAIRU; Reform; Security; Social; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 37849188887     PISSN: 0007666X     EISSN: 0007666X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2145/20060205     Document Type: Article

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