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) have been used as a means to fight high unemployment. This paper discusses the mechanisms through which ALMPs affect (un)employment … open unemployment, but also reduced regular employment. The overall policy conclusion is that ALMPs of the scale used in …. There should be a greater emphasis on holding down long-term unemployment in general and a smaller emphasis on youth …
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This paper summarizes a set of expert reports commissioned by the IFAU. The expert reports cover Estonia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. These countries represent range of welfare states, both in terms of scope and design. And in each country there are...
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Comparing Sweden to other EU countries, labour force participation rates of older individuals and females are high. These facts are consistent with the idea that institutional design matters: access to child care, paid parental leave, and a tax system with individual rather than household income...
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Swedish unemployment was very low up to the early 1990s when it rose rapidly. At the same time manufacturing employment …
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Do institutions spatially affect growth? By employing a neoclassical growth model with institutional controls and … augmenting the model with a formal spatial framework, this study finds evidence that institutions has spatial spillover effect on …
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study extends such evidence as it examines the link between institutions and growth in developing countries including East … in panel data analysis, this study finds evidence of positive institutions growth-effects and uncovers the channel of …
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Utilizing neoclassical growth framework augmented with institutional controls and latest estimation technique in panel data analysis, this study identifies the crucial institutional qualities in East Asian and other developing countries and uncovers the channel of their effects toward economic...
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political institutions weight matrix best explains the institutional distance concept since it produces identical results to the … route of institutions spillover where institutions in a country lead to economic improvement in that country and generate …
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This paper discusses the case for expanding active labor market policy in recession. We find that there is reasonable case for relying more heavily on certain kinds of programs. The argument is tied to the varying size of the lock-in effect in boom and recession. If programs with relatively...
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