Health insurance and labor force participation: What legal recognition does for same-sex couples

Contemporary Economic Policy

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 381-394

  Dillender, Marcus ^a  

^a WE Upjohn Institute for Employment Research   (United States)

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EID: 84922922261     PISSN: 10743529     EISSN: 14657287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/coep.12076     Document Type: Article

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