Kids or courses? Gender differences in the effects of active labor market policies

Journal of Population Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 783-812

  Lechner, Michael ^a   Wiehler, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Active labor market policy; Matching estimation; Panel data; Program evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955068484     PISSN: 09331433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00148-009-0267-2     Document Type: Article

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