Unemployment duration and the interactions between unemployment insurance and social assistance

Labour Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 773-798

  Pellizzari, Michele ^a,b  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b IZA ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Duration models; Social assistance; Unemployment duration; Unemployment insurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750016550     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2005.10.003     Document Type: Article

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