Improving job quality: Policies aimed at the demand side of the low-wage labor market

A Future of Good Jobs?: America's Challenge in the Global Economy

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 203-244

  Osterman, Paul ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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