The theoretical predictions of how employment protection affects firm productivity are ambiguous. In this paper I study … the effect of employment protection rules on labor productivity using micro data on Swedish firms. A reform of the … employment protection rules in 2001 made it possible for small firms with less than eleven employees to exempt two workers from …

This paper analyses recruitment practices to Samhall, a state-owned company that provides sheltered employment for … individuals with severe work disabilities. Besides providing employment for disabled workers and rehabilitating them to employment …

affect the sorting of individuals into self-employment and then we investigate whether self-employment has a differential … Germans. We find that the probability of self-employment increases significantly with age for all groups. For immigrants, the … years-since-migration exhibits a U-shape. During the first years since migration the likelihood of self-employment decreases …

relatively fewer hours before being separated. Among the young, however, both employment and hours are negatively affected …This paper examines the effects of collectively agreed increases in real minimum wages on employment transitions and … hours among manual workers in the Swedish retail sector over the period 2001–05. The findings indicate that increases in …