U.S. Employment and training programs and performance standards system design

The Performance of Performance Standards

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 15-28

  Courty, Pascal ^a   Heinrich, Carolyn J ^b,c   Marschke, Gerald ^d,e,f   Smith, Jeffrey ^g  

^a Centre for Economic Policy Research   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f IZA   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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