Why do governments subsidise investment and not employment?

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 78, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 171-192

  Fuest, Clemens ^a   Huber, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capital subsidies; H20; J51; Labour subsidies; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034288665     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(99)00115-2     Document Type: Article

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