Activation in the Western Europe of the 1990s: Did it make a difference?

Combating Poverty in Europe: The German Welfare Regime in Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 267-285

  Hvinden, Bjørn ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

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