The scarring effects of bankruptcy: Cumulative disadvantage across credit and labor markets

Social Forces

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 99-130

  Maroto, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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EID: 84873166163     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: 15347605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sf/sos095     Document Type: Article

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