The IZA Evaluation Dataset: Towards evidence-based labor policy making

International Journal of Manpower

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 731-752

  Caliendo, Marco ^a   Falk, Armin ^a   Kaiser, Lutz C ^a   Schneider, Hilmar ^a   Uhlendorff, Arne ^a   Van Den Berg, Gerard ^a   Zimmermann, Klaus F ^a  

^a IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Behaviour; Evaluation; Germany; Labour market policies; Skills; Survey and administrative data

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054019435     PISSN: 01437720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01437721111174730     Document Type: Article

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