Accounting for labor demand effects in structural labor supply models

Labour Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 129-138

  Peichl, Andreas ^a,b,c,d   Siegloch, Sebastian ^a,b  

^a IZA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c ISER ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d CESIFO   (Germany)

Author keywords

Labor demand; Labor supply; Policy reform; Workfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 84455208253     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2011.09.007     Document Type: Article

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