Targeting labour market programmes — results from a randomized experiment

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 221-268

  Behncke, Stefanie ^a   Frölich, Markus ^b,c,d,e   Lechner, Michael ^a,c,f,g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^c IZA   (Germany)

^d SEW   (Switzerland)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^g POLICY STUDIES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^h INSTITUTE FOR EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH IAB   (Germany)

Author keywords

active labour market programmes; ALMP; J68; Profiling; public employment services; statistical treatment rules; unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955666873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22356282     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03399281     Document Type: Article

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