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Deltidsarbetslöshet och arbetslöshetsförsäkring i Sverige (Part-time unemployment and unemployment insurance in Sweden)

Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010

comprising persons in employment who (i) are willing to work additional hours, (ii) are available to work additional hours, and …

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The Rise and Fall of Swedish Unemployment

Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2003

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several years but exhibited a marked fall from 1997 and...

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The Swedish Youth Labor Market in Boom and Depression

Edin, Per-Anders; Forslund, Anders; Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998

of labor market programs on youth employment. We find that the slump in the 1990s has been associated with dramatic … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … for labor by skill attributable to technological innovation. The employment crisis has been met by an unprecedented …

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Unemployment, Labour Market Programmes and Wage Determination: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics

Huitfeldt, Henrik - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2001

This paper studies effects of unemployment and labour market programmes on real wages in the Czech and Slovak Republics using district paneldata for the period 1992-1998. Clear evidence of a "wage curve" exists in both countries. The estimated unemployment elasticity of pay is, however, higher...

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The Determinants of Hiring in Local Labor Markets: The Role of Demand and Supply Factors

Eriksson, Stefan; Stadin, Karolina - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

direct effect on employment. Our results show that product demand is important for hiring. Moreover, we show that …

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Optimal Earnings-Related Unemployment Benefits

Taslimi, Mohammad - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2003

Existing unemployment insurance systems in many OECD countries involve a ceiling on insurable earnings. The result is lower replacement rate for employees with relatively high earnings. This paper examines whether replacement rates should decrease as the level of earnings rises. The framework is...

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Temporary Work in Turbulent Times: The Swedish Experience

Holmlund, Bertil; Storrie, Donald - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2001

increased prevalence. Our analysis reveals that open-ended and temporary employment exhibit strikingly different cyclical … behaviour with temporary employment being more volatile. A recession is associated with an initial decline in temporary … employment followed by a sharp rise from the trough to the end of the recession. We argue that the severe recession of the 1990s …

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Ranking of Job Applicants, On-the-job Search and Persistent Unemployment

Eriksson, Stefan; Gottfries, Nils - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000

employment status affects both the level and the persistence of unemployment and numerically that these effects are substantial …

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Wage Formation and Redistribution

Engström, Per - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007

The paper extends the basic Stiglitz (1982) model of optimal nonlinear income taxation into a model featuring endogenous unemployment and wages. This means that the government needs to consider the effects on wages and unemployment when designing the optimal tax function. The tax systems’...

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Optimal Taxation in Search Equilibrium with Home Production

Engström, Per; Holmlund, Bertil; Kolm, Ann-Sofie - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2001

The paper develops a two-sector general equilibrium search model where "goods" are produced exclusively in the market and "services" are produced both in the market and within the households. We use the model to examine how unemployment and welfare are affected by labor taxes in general and...

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