Productive effects of public works programs: What do we know? What should we know?
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Public Works programs; Investment; Wages; Skills; Public goods;All these keywords.
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- J2 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor
- J4 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets
- H4 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods
- O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
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