Evaluating outcomes from the youth training scheme using matched firm-trainee data

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 277-306

  Upward, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0036662173     PISSN: 03059049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0084.00022     Document Type: Article

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