'Much a do about nothing?' Institutional framework and empirical findings on the working poor phenomenon in Finland from 1995 to 2005

The Working Poor in Europe: Employment, Poverty and Globalization

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 179-202

  Airio, Ilpo ^a   Kuivalainen, Susan ^a   Niemelä, Mikko ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b SOCIAL INSURANCE INSTITUTION   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

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