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A Field Experiment on Labor Market Speeddates for Unemployed Workers

Bas van der Klaauw and Lennart Ziegler
Published online before print June 10, 2022, 1021-11946R2; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.1021-11946R2
Bas van der Klaauw
Bas van der Klaauw is a professor of economics at VU University Amsterdam and a research fellow at the Tinbergen Institute (Email: ).
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Lennart Ziegler
Lennart Ziegler is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Vienna (Email: ).
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