Did the hartz reforms speed-up the matching process? A macro-evaluation using empirical matching functions

German Economic Review

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 284-316

  Fahr, René ^a   Sunde, Uwe ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^c Center for Economic and Policy Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical matching function; Hartz reform; Stock flow matching

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LABOR MARKET; REFORM PROCESS; UNEMPLOYMENT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 67650355494     PISSN: 14656485     EISSN: 14680475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0475.2008.00457.x     Document Type: Article

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