Unemployment, discouraged workers and female labour supply

Richard Blundell; John Ham; Costas Meghir

Unemployment, discouraged workers and female labour supply

Richard Blundell, John Ham and Costas Meghir

Journal article | Research in Economics

01 Jan 1998

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Volume, issue, pages	Vol. 52, pp. 103-131
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