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For whose sake do couples relocate? Gender, career opportunities and couples’ internal migration in Sweden

Brandén, Maria; Ström, Sara - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2011

The aim with this study is to examine how career possibilities in the man’s and the woman’s occupations – in the country as a whole, as well as in the region where the couple resides – affect heterosexual couples’ regional mobility. The context is Sweden –a country with a strong dual...

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Does more general education reduce the risk of future unemployment? Evidence from labor market experiences during the Great Recession

Hall, Caroline - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2013

This paper investigates whether more general education reduces the risk of future unemployment by examining individuals … longer and more general program reduced the risk of experiencing unemployment during the 2008–2010 recession. Among students … unemployment. This pattern is strongest among male students and the effect is likely to be explained by the increased dropout rate …

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From giving birth to paid labor: the effects of adult education for prime-aged mothers

Bergemann, Annette; den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2014

Women without work after childbirth are at risk of losing their connection to the labor market. However, they may participate in adult education programs. We analyze the effect of this on the duration to work and on the wage rate, by applying conditional difference-in-differences approaches. We...

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Factors associated with occupational disability classification

Angelov, Nikoay; Eliason, Marcus - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2014

Sweden has a long tradition of labour market policies explicitly targeting job seekers with disabilities, ranging from in-work aids to subsidized employments, aiming at strengthening their position at the labour market. To ascertain that these programs are limited to the needy they are...

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The differential earnings and income effects of involuntary job loss on workers with disabilities

Angelov, Nikolay; Eliason, Marcus - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2014

People with disabilities, both in Sweden and elsewhere, are consistently found to face considerable difficulties on the labour market. In this study we have investigated the differential impact of involuntary job loss, on earnings and income, if being disabled. Our main findings are that...

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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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To meet or not to meet, that is the question - short-run effects of high-frequency meetings with case workers

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Back Kjaersgaard, Lene; … - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2014

unemployment to employment using detailed Danish event history data obtained from administrative registers. We find large positive …

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Institutions and labor market outcomes in the Netherlands

Gautier, Pieter A.; van der Klaauw, Bas - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009

force participation is high and the unemployment rate is low (also for young workers). Among the unemployed there are …

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Income support systems, labor market policies and labor supply: the German experience

Caliendo, Marco - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009

. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with …

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Virtues of SIN - effects of an immigrant workplace introduction program

Åslund, Olof; Johansson, Per - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2006

estimate the effects of the program. The results suggest that the program increased transitions from unemployment to work …

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