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Does active labour market policy work? Lessons from the Swedish experiences

Calmfors, Lars; Forslund, Anders; Hemström, Maria - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2002

) 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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Income support systems, labour supply incentives and employment – some cross-country evidence

Forslund, Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009

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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Labour supply incentives, income support systems and taxes in Sweden

Forslund, Anders - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009

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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Decentralisation of bargaining and manufacturing employment: Sweden 1970-96

Forslund, Anders; Lindh, Thomas - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2004

Swedish unemployment was very low up to the early 1990s when it rose rapidly. At the same time manufacturing employment …

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Foundations of the economic and social history of the United States: Apologia

Albers, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This set of three volumes argues that the mind – human consciousness – may be measured by considering mathematically the aggregate of that consciousness, i.e. social history. From this beginning theme of discussion three questions must arise. 1. How might this measurement be made? 2. Of what...

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Foundations of the economic and social history of the United States: Empirical

Albers, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

I argue that a form of consciousness may be found in American economic history, one which is both mathematically demonstrable and important. In this book I present a model of economic and political growth based upon systematic addition. We begin with a philosophic model of trade (pp. 34-46);...

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Okun’s Law as a Pi-to-1 ratio: A harmonic / trigonometric theory as to why Okun’s Law works

Albers, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

unemployment. This paper argues that this ratio is actually a Pi:1 proportion, heretofore unrecognized because it is displayed …

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Foundations of the economic and social history of the United States: Theoretical

Albers, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In sum, in these essays I explore the self-similarity between levels, the fractal structure of reality, through an investigation of an inherent and unavoidable uncertainty which is unique to each level. These essays will demonstrate that as each level struggles to resolve its own inherent...

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Predicting crises: Five essays on the mathematic prediction of economic and social crises

Albers, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This volume – Predicting Crisis: Five Essays on the Mathematic Prediction of Economic and Social Crises – is the first of three sets of essays. In this first set the economic and social history of the United States is shown to be a “system of movement,” i.e. a logical and mathematic...

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What active labor market policy works in a recession?

Forslund, Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Vikström, Johan - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2011

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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