Does subsidised temporary employment get the unemployed back to work? An econometric analysis of two different schemes

Labour Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 807-835

  Gerfin, Michael ^a,b   Lechner, Michael ^b,c,d,e   Steiger, Heidi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^d CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^e CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active labour market policies; Employment programme; Matching on the propensity score; Subsidised temporary job; Switzerland; Temporary work contracts

Indexed keywords

EID: 27644534644     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2004.04.002     Document Type: Article

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