How do the employment effects of job creation schemes differ with respect to the foregoing unemployment duration?

Labour Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 38-51

  Hujer, Reinhard ^a,d   Thomsen, Stephan L ^b,c  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^d IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active labour market policy; Administrative data; Evaluation; Hidden bias; Job creation schemes; Propensity score matching

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649128324     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2009.07.001     Document Type: Article

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