Labor Force Loss Due to Disability
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Kristin F. Butcher is an associate professor of economics at Wellesley College and a former senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Kyung H. Park is a senior associate economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. The authors thank Dan Sullivan, Anna Paulson, Bhashkar Mazumder, and seminar participants at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago for helpful comments. The views e...
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عنوان ژورنال: Public Health Reports (1896-1970)
سال: 1969
ISSN: 0094-6214
DOI: 10.2307/4593547