What can we expect from subsidies for the long-term unemployed?

Economist

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 205-228

  Jongen, Egbert L W ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Long term unemployment; Search theory; Targeted employment subsidies

Indexed keywords

UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 0033377227     PISSN: 0013063X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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