Does early intervention help the unemployed youth?

Labour Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 301-319

  Carling, Kenneth ^a   Larsson, Laura ^b  

^a Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU)   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Early intervention; Guarantee; Program evaluation; Quasi experiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 18144391991     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2003.12.001     Document Type: Article

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