Active labor market policies in Europe: Performance and perspectives

Active Labor Market Policies in Europe: Performance and Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-222

  Kluve, Jochen ^a   Card, David ^b   Fertig, Michael ^a   Góra, Marek ^c   Jacobi, Lena ^a   Jensen, Peter ^d   Leetmaa, Reelika ^e   Nima, Leonhard ^a   Patacchini, Eleonora ^f   Schaffner, Sandra ^a   Schmidt, Christoph M ^a   Van Der Klaauw, Bas ^g   Weber, Andrea ^h  

^a RWI LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WARSAW SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Poland)

^d AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

^e Aarhus School of Business ^*  (Estonia)

^f SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^g VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^h INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Austria)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-48558-2     Document Type: Book

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