Active labour-market policies: A case of evidence-based policy-making?

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 13-26

  Robinson, Peter ^a  

^a NONE

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC POLICY; LABOR MARKET; POLICY MAKING; TRAINING;

UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034035652     PISSN: 0266903X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/16.1.13     Document Type: Article

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