Costs and benefits of Danish active labour market programmes

Labour Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 859-884

  Jespersen, Svend T ^a   Munch, Jakob R ^b   Skipper, Lars ^c  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Inst of Local Government Studies   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Active labour market programmes; Cost benefit analysis; Propensity score matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 50949122607     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2007.07.005     Document Type: Article

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