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The U.S. Labor Market During and After the Great Recession: Continuities and Transformations
Arne L. Kalleberg, Till M. von Wachter
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences April 2017, 3 (3) 1-19; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2017.3.3.01
Arne L. Kalleberg
aKenan Distinguished Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Till M. von Wachter
bAssociate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles
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