Treatment effect of job-training programmes on unemployment duration in Slovakia

Statistica Neerlandica

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 57-72

  Van Dijk, Bram ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Duration analysis; Program evaluation; Selection bias; Time varying variables

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644924068     PISSN: 00390402     EISSN: 14679574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9574.2006.00311.x     Document Type: Article

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