Deregulating job placement in Europe: A microeconometric evaluation of an innovative voucher scheme in Germany

Labour Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 505-517

  Winterhager, Henrik ^a   Heinze, Anja ^a   Spermann, Alexander ^a,b  

^a CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active labor market policy; Job placement; Matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746382539     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2006.02.003     Document Type: Article

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