Unemployed and their caseworkers: Should they be friends or foes?

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 67-92

  Behncke, Stefanie ^a   Frölich, Markus ^a,b   Lechner, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Public employment services; Statistical matching methods; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 72249097658     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2009.00600.x     Document Type: Article

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