Financial incentives and job-search training: Methods to increase labour market integration in contemporary welfare states?

Social Policy and Administration

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 247-259

  Malmberg Heimonen, Ira ^a   Vuori, Jukka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Job search training programmes; Labour market policy; Randomized experimental design; Re employment; Welfare benefits

Indexed keywords

LABOR MARKET; SOCIAL POLICY; TRAINING; WELFARE PROVISION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; WORLD;

EID: 19844375499     PISSN: 01445596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9515.2005.00438.x     Document Type: Article

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