The impact of active labour market programmes on the duration of unemployment in Switzerland

Economic Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 525, 2008, Pages 235-257

  Lalive, Rafael ^a   Van Ours, Jan C ^b   Zweimüller, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT GENERATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; LABOR MARKET; RECRUITMENT (EMPLOYMENT); UNEMPLOYMENT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 37748999932     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2007.02111.x     Document Type: Article

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