Who cleans my house if the government pays? Refugees, low-educated workers, and long-term unemployed in tax-subsidized domestic service firms

Rickne, Johanna

Who cleans my house if the government pays? Refugees, low-educated workers, and long-term unemployed in tax-subsidized domestic service firms

IZA Journal of Labor Policy

Volume 11 (2021): Issue 1 (January 2021)

By:

Johanna Rickne

Open Access

|May 2021

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