Wage Subsidies

1 June 1994

journal article
abstracts
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Economic and Labour Relations Review

Vol. 5 (1) , 1-10
https://doi.org/10.1177/103530469400500101

Abstract

The Committee on Employment Opportunities viewed temporary wage subsidies as a means through which the current long-term unemployed could be brought back into the effective labour supply. Experience with wage subsidies suggests that they will lead to minimal job creation and a churning of the pool of unemployment.

Keywords

COMMITTEE
SUBSIDIES
UNEMPLOYMENT
UNEMPLOYED
JOB
BROUGHT
MINIMAL
CHURNING
VIEWED TEMPORARY

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