License to Work, 1st Edition
Published in 2012, this is an older edition of IJ’s landmark License to Work report. You can download the report here, but please see the third and current edition for the most up-to-date information. The third edition also provides a comparison dataset with data spanning all three editions, including corrections to earlier data.
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