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Assessment of the Reaction of Cyclical Unemployment to the Economic Decline and Recovery Growth in Russia

Blinova T.V., Rusanovskii V.A., Markov V.A.

Volume 13, Issue 6, 2020

Blinova T.V., Rusanovskii V.A., Markov V.A. Assessment of the reaction of cyclical unemployment to the economic decline and recovery growth in Russia. Economic and Social Changes: Facts, Trends, Forecast, 2020, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 184–198. DOI: 10.15838/esc.2020.6.72.11

DOI: 10.15838/esc.2020.6.72.11

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