Welfare without work?: Divergent experiences of reform in Germany and the Netherlands

The Survival of the European Welfare State

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 106-127

  Hemerijck, Anton ^a   Manow, Philip ^b   Van Kersbergen, Kees ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Max Planck Institute   (Germany)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 85138392608     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203380314-15     Document Type: Chapter

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