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Overvalued: Swedish monetary policy in the 1930s

Rathke, Alexander; Straumann, Tobias; Woitek, Ulrich - 2011

This paper reconsiders the role of monetary policy in Sweden's strong recovery from the Great Depression. The Riksbank …, our findings suggest that Sweden avoided the worst excesses of the depression by conducting conservative rather than … innovative monetary policy. We find that, by keeping the Swedish krona undervalued to replenish foreign reserves, Sweden …

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Using internal replication to establish a treatment effect

Johansson, Per - 2006

In many cases assignment to a treatment may affect concomitant variables. I show how a concomitant variable can be used to corroborate evidence from an observational study. In the observational study two types of training programs are compared. One program is part of regular Swedish labor market...

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Labour market programmes and labour market outcomes: A study of the Swedish active labour market interventions

Adda, Jérôme; Costa Dias, Mónica; Meghir, Costas; … - 2007

This paper assesses the impact of Swedish welfare-to-work programmes on labour market performance including wages, labour market status, unemployment duration and future welfare-to-work participation. We develop a structural dynamic model of labour supply which incorporates detailed...

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Do benefit hikes damage job finding? Evidence from Swedish unemployment insurance reforms

Bennmarker, Helge; Carling, Kenneth; Holmlund, Bertil - 2005

In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was …

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Are there pre-programme effects of Swedish active labour market policies? Evidence from three randomised experiments

Hägglund, Pathric - 2006

In this paper experimental data from three Swedish demonstration programmes in 2004 are used to study pre-programme effects of active placement efforts. In one of the experiments, targeted towards a broad group of UI receivers, arranged job-search activities in groups combined with increased...

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Does providing childcare to unemployed affect unemployment duration?

Vikman, Ulrika - 2010

This paper examines if the probability of leaving unemployment changes for unemployed parents with young children when childcare is available. To investigate this, I use the heterogeneity among Swedish municipalities before the implementation of a 2001 Swedish childcare reform making it...

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Putting teenagers on the pill: The consequences of subsidized contraception

Grönqvist, Hans - 2009

This paper investigates the consequences of a series of Swedish policy changes beginning in 1989 where different regions started subsidizing the birth control pill. The reforms were significant and applied to all types of oral contraceptives. My identification strategy takes advantage of the...

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Graded children: Evidence of longrun consequences of school grades from a nationwide reform

Sjögren, Anna - 2010

Swedish elementary school children stopped receiving written end of year report cards following a grading reform in 1982. Gradual implementation of the reform creates an opportunity to investigate the effects of being graded on adult educational attainments and earnings for children in the...

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On mandatory activation of welfare receivers

Dahlberg, Matz; Johansson, Kajsa; Mörk, Eva - 2008

This paper investigates whether mandatory activation programs for welfare receivers have effects on welfare participation, employment and disposable income. In contrast to earlier studies we are able to capture both entry and exit effects. The empirical analysis makes use of a Swedish welfare...

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Dynamic effects of mandatory activation of welfare participants

Persson, Anna; Vikman, Ulrika - 2010

Previous literature shows that activation requirements for welfare participants decrease welfare participation. However, the dynamics have not been examined, and often only exit effects are analyzed. In this paper, we look more closely at the transition rates into and out of welfare. Using...

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