Are jobs available for disadvantaged workers in urban areas?

Urban Inequality: Evidence From Four Cities

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 496-538

  Holzer, Harry J ^a   Danziger, Sheldon ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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