Active labour market policy, international organizations and domestic politics

Journal of European Public Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 905-932

  Armingeon, Klaus ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Institute of Political Science   (France)

Author keywords

Active labour market policy; Domestic impacts of the EU; EU; Labour market policy; Open method of co ordination

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548542515     PISSN: 13501763     EISSN: 14664429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501760701497923     Document Type: Article

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