Economic Policy
- ISBN-10
- 1349248762
- ISBN-13
- 9781349248766
- Series
- Economic Policy
- Category
- Economic policy
- Pages
- 344
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996-09-06
- Publisher
- Macmillan International Higher Education
- Authors
- Brian Atkinson, G. B. J. Atkinson, Peter Baker
Description
There are more than 20 million people in the OECD who are in receipt of benefits other than unemployment benefit (e.g. early retirement on a state pension, invalidity benefit) (Blondal and Pearson, 1995, p. 136).
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