European unemployment: The evolution of facts and ideas

Economic Policy

Volumn 21, Issue 45, 2006, Pages 5-59

  Blanchard, Olivier ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT; LABOR POLICY; POLICY MAKING; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33746043006     PISSN: 02664658     EISSN: 14680327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0327.2006.00153.x     Document Type: Review

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