Changing Social Security Survivorship Benefits and the Poverty of Widows

Michael D. Hurd & David A. Wise
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Copyright 1996
ISBN 0-226-36100-4
Aging in the United States and Japan
Book: The Economic Effects of Aging in the United States and Japan
Book editors: Michael D. Hurd & Naohiro Yashiro
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
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