Revising employers' role in sponsoring and financing health insurance and medical care

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 81-118

  Swartz, Katherine ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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