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Age effects in Swedish local labour markets

Nordström Skans, Oskar - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2002

The paper studies the effects of changes in the age structure on aggregate labour market performance using a panel of Swedish local labour markets. The methodology of Shimer (2001) is used for studying the effects of youth cohort size and is extended to include the full age distribution. The...

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Imperfect information, wage formation, and the employability of the unemployed

Eriksson, Stefan - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2002

This paper considers the optimal hiring strategy of a firm that is unable to observe the productive abilities of all its applicants. Whom the firm considers as hireable, will depend crucially on the extent to which the firm can use its wage setting to mirror productivity differences. However,...

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Ranking of job applicants, on-the-job search, and persistent unemployment

Eriksson, Stefan; Gottfries, Nils - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2000

job applicants by employment status affects both the level and the persistence of unemployment and numerically that these ….) could potentially help to explain the high and persistent unemployment in Europe. …

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The effects of working time reductions on wages, actual hours and equilibrium unemployment

Nordström Skans, Oskar - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2001

This paper extends a general equilibrium model of unemployment and working hours and evaluates the model on a 5 percent …. Furthermore, working time reductions may result in an increase in wage pressure, causing unemployment to rise. …

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Åslund, Olof; Hensvik, Lena; Nordström Skans, Oskar - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009

We show that immigrant managers are substantially more likely to hire immigrants than are native managers. The finding holds when comparing establishments in the same 5-digit industry and location, when comparing different establishments within the same firm, when analyzing establishments that...

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Skill loss, ranking of job applicants, and the dynamics of unemployment

Eriksson, Stefan - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2001

This paper investigates the consequences of skill loss as a result of unemployment in an efficiency wage model with …, this will result in a lengthy adjustment process with substantial long run unemployment effects. Moreover, the model is …

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Stepping-stones or dead-ends? An analysis of Swedish replacement contracts

Larsson, Laura; Lindqvist, Linus; Nordström Skans, Oskar - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2005

unemployment among job-seekers. Using exact matching on labour market history and personal characteristics we find positive effects … effect of the length is found on unemployment, employment or wages. Overall, the results suggest that receiving a fixed term … contract reduces the risk of future unemployment, and that a longer contract increases the position within the workplace but …

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