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Age effects in Swedish local labour markets

Nordström Skans, Oskar - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2002

The paper studies the effects of changes in the age structure on aggregate labour market performance using a panel of Swedish local labour markets. The methodology of Shimer (2001) is used for studying the effects of youth cohort size and is extended to include the full age distribution. The...

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Monetary policy and Swedish unemployment fluctuations

Alexius, Annika; Holmlund, Bertil - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2008

such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …

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The effect of search frictions on wages

den Berg, Gerard J. van; van Vuuren, Aico - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2003

Labour market theories allowing for search frictions make marked predictions on the effect of the degree of frictions on wages. Often, the effect is predicted to be negative. Despite the popularity of these theories, this has never been tested. We perform tests with matched worker-firm data. The...

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Municipal activation policy: A case study of the practical work with unemployed social assistance recipients

Hjertner Thorén, Katarina - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2005

In the 1990s, many municipalities developed local activation programs for social assistance recipients as a response to increasing social assistance expenditures. This study investigates the practical implementation of municipal activation policies in two different activation programs,...

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Decentralisation of active labour market policy: The case of Swedish local employment service committees

Lundin, Martin; Skedinger, Per - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2000

Decentralisation of decision-making in active labour market policy makes it possible to use local information to the fullest, but may also impinge on the fulfilment of national objectives, as suggested by principal-agent theory. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of a Swedish...

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Job flows in Swedish manufacturing 1972-1996

Andersson, Fredrik - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 1999

This paper deals with the heterogeneous employment outcome at the plant level in Swedish manufacturing over the period 1972-96. <p> Non-negligible gross flows of jobs is found to be a pronounced feature in Swedish manufacturing, but as compared to results on U.S. data, the average pace of job...</p>

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The dynamics of combining self-employment and employment

Delmar, Frédéric; Folta, Timothy; Wennberg, Karl - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2008

This study examines the extent to which wage-earning workers are simultaneously self-employed, a phenomenon not thoroughly investigated in earlier studies. We use matched employee-employer databases to present a detailed investigation of self-employment patterns within the post industrial...

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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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