Modeling financial incentives to get the unemployed back to work

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 227-252

  Boone, Jan ^a   Van Ours, Jan C ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 33745188098     PISSN: 09324569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1628/093245606777583576     Document Type: Article

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