The Rise (and Fall) of Labour Market Programmes: Domestic vs. Global Factors

We provide a simple model to illustrate that tax and redistributive considerations as well as increasing globalization may lead workers unexposed to the threat of unemployment to prefer government spending on active labour market programmes to passive spending, e.g., on unemployment benefits. In the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gaston, Noel, Rajaguru, G.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Oxford University Press 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/16691