Direct displacement effects of labour market programmes

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 475-494

  Dahlberg, Matz ^a   Forslund, Anders ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Displacement effects; GMM estimation; Labour market programmes

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; LABOR MARKET; MARKET CONDITIONS; TRAINING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 27844445203     PISSN: 03470520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2005.00419.x     Document Type: Article

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