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On the social opportunity cost of unemployment

Per-Olov Johanssona Department of Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden;b Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics (CERE), Umeå, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Bengt Kriströmb Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics (CERE), Umeå, Sweden;c Department of Forest Economics, SLU-Umeå, Umeå, SwedenView further author information
Pages 229-239 | Received 15 Sep 2019, Accepted 02 Jun 2020, Published online: 26 Jun 2020

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