Boosting the earnings and employment of low-skilled workers in the United States: Making work pay and removing barriers to employment and social mobility

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 245-304

  Raphael, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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