Social insurance as a collective resource: Unemployment benefits, job insecurity and subjective well-being in a comparative perspective

Social Forces

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1281-1304

  Sjöberg, Ola ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 77953591189     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: 15347605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sof.0.0293     Document Type: Review

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