Unemployment vouchers versus low-wage subsidies

Designing Inclusion: Tools to Raise Low-End Pay and Employment in Private Enterprise

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 131-160

  Orszag, J Michael ^a   Snower, Dennis J ^b  

^a Watson Wyatt ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 77955844370     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511493447.005     Document Type: Chapter

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