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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651865
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502566
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502572
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651890
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How Does Democracy fare with Economic Welfare for a Trading Nation?
Mamoon, Dawood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The paper examines how political institutions in comparison to legal, social and economic institutions fare with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835603
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Beyond Institutionalism: There Lies a Good Set of Trade Policies
Mamoon, Dawood; Murshed, S. Mansoob - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the contribution of trade liberalisation to differences in the level of prosperity across nations. We compare this with the relative contribution of institutional capacity to prosperity, as well as the role of human capital accumulation in that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876646
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Transitioning Democracies are a Risky Business in the South
Mamoon, Dawood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper finds that trade is insignificant in explaining income inequality. The results also suggest institutions are … for some institutions like rule of law when the sample is restricted to developing countries. However, for other … institutions like democracy and autocracy, the author finds that former is positively related with inequality and later is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876873
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Good versus Bad Political Institutions and Economic Welfare
Mamoon, Dawood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The paper finds that countries which practice democracy are less prone to unequal outcomes especially when it comes to wage inequality and income inequality whereas autocracy is associated with higher level of wage inequalities but its impact on income inequalities are insignificant. Though...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004156
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Want Economic Growth with Good Quality Institutions? Spend on Education
Mamoon, Dawood; Murshed, Mansoob - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The purpose of this paper is to compare the role of human capital accumulation measured by number of years of schooling with the relative contribution of institutional capacity to prosperity. We employ several concepts of institutional quality prevalent in the literature. We discover that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789820
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Some non Price Factors that Fend off Unemployment in Pakistan
Hassan, Muhammad shahid; Wajid, Ayesha; Mamoon, Dawood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
share of total population on unemployment in Pakistan for the period from 1973 – 2010. Empirical findings of this study … suggest that financial development does reduce unemployment significantly in the short run and in the long run. Foreign direct … investment reduces unemployment in the long run but, it increases unemployment in the short run. Moreover; the urban population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258937