Employment and welfare effects of a two-tier unemployment compensation system

International Tax and Public Finance

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 147-168

  Heer, Burkhard ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^b CESIFO   (Germany)

Author keywords

General equilibrium; Overlapping generations; Search unemployment; Unemployment compensation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347037161     PISSN: 09275940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023333822823     Document Type: Article

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