Public finance solutions to the European unemployment problem?

Economic Policy

Volumn , Issue 25, 1997, Pages 221-264

  Sørensen, Peter Birch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC POLICY; UNEMPLOYMENT; WELFARE FINANCE;

EUROPE;

EID: 0031430842     PISSN: 02664658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0327.00021     Document Type: Article

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