Unemployment duration in Germany: Individual and regional determinants of local job finding, migration and subsidized employment

Regional Studies

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-61

  Arntz, Melanie ^a   Wilke, Ralf A ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competing risk; Individual and regional data; Labour market policy

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATION; LABOR MARKET; LABOR MIGRATION; LABOR POLICY; PUBLIC SERVICE; UNEMPLOYMENT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 60749098824     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: 13600591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343400701654145     Document Type: Article

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