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How Changes in Potential Benefit Duration Affect Equilibrium Unemployment

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  • Lalive, R.
  • van Ours, J.C.

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  • Zweimüller, J.

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  • Lalive, R. & van Ours, J.C. & Zweimüller, J., 2006. "How Changes in Potential Benefit Duration Affect Equilibrium Unemployment," Discussion Paper 2006-94, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research.
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