Unemployment insurance over the business cycle: Does it meet the needs of less-skilled workers?

Working and Poor: How Economic and Policy Changes are Affecting Low-wage Workers

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 366-395

  Levine, Phillip B ^a  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

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