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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
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Till M. von Wachter
bAssociate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles
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