State spending on social assistance programs over the business cycle

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 289-311

  McGuire, Therese J ^a   Merriman, David F ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

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