How is health insurance affected by the economy? Public and private coverage among low-skilled adults in the 1990s

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 396-425

  Levy, Helen ^a,b  

^a Institute for Social Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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