Demographic and education effects on unemployment in Europe

Labour Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1076-1101

  Biagi, Federico ^a,b   Lucifora, Claudio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Demographic; Education; Labour market institutions; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 51149112272     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2007.09.006     Document Type: Article

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