A Distinctive System: Origins and Impact of U.S. Unemployment Compensation

Katherine Baicker, Claudia Goldin & Lawrence F. Katz
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Copyright 1998
ISBN 0-226-06589-8
Defining Moment
Book: The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century
Book editors: Michael D. Bordo, Claudia Goldin & Eugene N. White
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
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