Mental health: the new frontier for labour economics

IZA Journal of Labor Policy

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Layard, Richard ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84983239114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21939004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2193-9004-2-2     Document Type: Article

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