Activating unemployed workers works; Experimental evidence from Denmark

Economics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 308-310

  Graversen, Brian Krogh ^a   van Ours, Jan C ^b,c,d,e  

^a VIVE THE DANISH CENTER FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH   (Denmark)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d IZA ^*  (Germany)

^e CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C9; Experiment; J6; Unemployment duration; Unemployment insurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 45049086686     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2008.02.016     Document Type: Article

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