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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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economic aspects. Specifically it attempted to classify and measure various types of institutions based on a theoretical …
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Johansen-Juselius cointegration technique and the Granger causality test. The study results indicate that Institutions and … the causality between Institutions and growth is uni-directional. However, there is no short run causality from … Institutions to growth and vice versa. Therefore, as a policy implication that institutional quality may cause to the sustainable …
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measure the single dimensions affects economic growth. The results show that over all, institutions promote growth in long run … institutions. …
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The role of institutions in promoting economic growth and development has generated considerable interest among … researchers and practitioners in recent years. This paper explores the role of state institutions in promoting growth using a GMM … econometric model. Specifically it attempted to test impact of two dimensions of institutions on growth using recently developed …
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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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