Poverty and Turkish Labor Markets

2007-01-01
Erdil, Erkan
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E. Erdil, “Poverty and Turkish Labor Markets,” METU Studies in Development, pp. 137–172, 2007, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/74792.
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