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How changes in financial incentives affect the duration of unemployment

Lalive, Rafael (contributor); Ours, Jan C. van (contributor) - 2004

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Eyeballing state dependence and unobserved heterogeneity in aggregate unemployment duration data

Berg, Gerard J. van den - 1997

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