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Educational Inequality

Long-term consequences of being not in employment, education or training as a young adult. Stability and change in three Swedish birth cohorts

Olof BäckmanSwedish Institute for Social Research, SOFI, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden;Department of Criminology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 136-157 | Received 11 Feb 2015, Accepted 21 Dec 2015, Published online: 03 Mar 2016

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