An Activation Program as a Stick to Job Finding

Labour

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 167-181

  Graversen, Brian Krogh ^a   Van Ours, Jan C ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JOB SEARCH; LABOR MARKET; LABOR POLICY; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; UNEMPLOYMENT;

DENMARK;

EID: 79956203541     PISSN: 11217081     EISSN: 14679914     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9914.2011.00521.x     Document Type: Article

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