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Making Sense of Health-Related Labor-Market Exits and Disability: Evidence from the American Voices Project

James Hiebert, Lillian Kahris, Kristin Seefeldt
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences September 2024, 10 (5) 66-83; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2024.10.5.03
James Hiebert
aResearch assistant at Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan
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bProject director at the Western New York Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, United States
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cAssociate professor of social work at the University of Michigan, United States
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