share, and the unemployment rate, hence labour market institutions are an essential determinant of the distribution of …, second, that stronger unions and a more generous unemployment benefit tend to reduce income inequality. High capital …

OECD. We first model the wage determination process and show that unemployment, the labour share, and the wage differential … is ambiguous. Stronger unions and/or a more generous unemployment benefit tend to reduce inequality through reduced wage … differentials, a higher labour share, and also higher unemployment. We then use a panel of OECD countries for the period 1970-96 to …

share, and the unemployment rate, hence labour market institutions are an essential determinant of the distribution of …, second, that stronger unions and a more generous unemployment benefit tend to reduce income inequality. High capital …

before the crisis. Today, the unemployment rate is lower than the EU average, though Sweden no longer stands out in this …The economic crisis in the early 1990s brought about a dramatic increase in unemployment and a similar decrease in … labor force participation. Unemployment declined afterwards, but stabilized at around 6-7% - more than twice as high as …

generally do not affect unemployment incidence. However, unemployment incidence doubles for workers in less productive firms who …

In Sweden, as in many other countries, marginal groups tend to be overrepresented in non-standard employment. A … considerably smaller in Sweden, both for natives and foreign born, than those that have been found for other countries. This may be … due to a highly compressed wage structure and extensive coverage of collective bargaining in Sweden. On the whole, the …

Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job … experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of subsequent wages while no such effect could be found for women. These findings … unemployment duration was rather short, which may have prevented general capital from depreciating. However, the presence of large …