Making work pay in a rationed labor market

Journal of Population Economics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 323-351

  Bargain, Olivier ^a,b   Caliendo, Marco ^b   Haan, Peter ^c   Orsini, Kristian ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Household labor supply; Involuntary unemployment; Tax benefit systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 70549109156     PISSN: 09331433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00148-008-0220-9     Document Type: Article

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