Can income support for part-time workers serve as a stepping-stone to regular jobs? An application to young long-term unemployed women

Empirical Economics

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 189-229

  Cockx, Bart ^a,b,c,e   Goebel, Christian ^f   Robin, Stéphane ^d,e  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c CESIFO   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^f CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active labour market policies; Evaluation; Mixed proportional Hazard models

Indexed keywords

INCOME; LABOR MARKET; LABOR PARTICIPATION; LABOR POLICY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; UNEMPLOYMENT; WOMENS STATUS; WORKING CONDITIONS; YOUNG POPULATION;

BELGIUM;

EID: 84872667433     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-010-0357-8     Document Type: Article

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