The life-course perspective and social policies: An overview of the issues

Modernising Social Policy for the New Life Course

Volumn 9789264041271, Issue , 2007, Pages 23-73

  Bovenberg, Arij Lans ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.1787/9789264041271-3-en     Document Type: Chapter

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