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Real and nominal wage adjustment in open economies

Forslund, Anders; Gottfries, Nils; Westermark, Andreas - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2005

How are wages set in an open economy? What role is played by demand pressure, international competition, and structural factors in the labour market? How important is nominal wage rigidity and exchange rate policy for the medium term evolution of real wages and competitiveness? To answer these...

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Networks and youth labor market entry

Hensvik, Lena; Nordström Skans, Oskar - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2013

The paper provides an overview of existing knowledge regarding the role played by social networks in the process where young workers are matched to employing firms. We discuss standard theories of why social networks may be an important element in the job-matching process and survey the...

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Social networks, employee selection and labor market outcomes

Hensvik, Lena; Nordström Skans, Oskar - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2013

. Our point of departure is the Montgomery (1991) model of employee referrals which suggests that it is optimal for firms to … hire new workers through referrals from their most productive existing employees, as these employees are more likely to … that firms use referrals of productive employees in order to attract workers with better qualities in dimensions that would …

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Negotiated wage increases and the labor market outcomes of low-wage workers: evidence from the Swedish public sector

Eliasson, Tove; Nordström Skans, Oskar - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of a collective agreement stipulating a one shot increase in establishment-specific wage levels in a public-sector setting where wages otherwise are set according to individualized wage bargaining. The agreement stipulated that wages should increase in...

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Imperfect information, wage formation, and the employability of the unemployed

Eriksson, Stefan - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2002

well, e.g. turnover, that may make it optimal not to set wages that fully reflect productivity differences. Instead, it may …

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Ranking of job applicants, on-the-job search, and persistent unemployment

Eriksson, Stefan; Gottfries, Nils - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2000

We formulate an efficiency wage model with on-the-job search where wages depend on turnover and employers may use …

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Skill loss, ranking of job applicants, and the dynamics of unemployment

Eriksson, Stefan - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2001

turnover costs and on-the-job search. Firms are unable to differentiate wages and therefore prefer to hire employed searchers …

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Direct displacement effects of labour market programmes: the case of Sweden

Dahlberg, Matz; Forslund, Anders - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 1999

Using a panel of 260 Swedish municipalities over the period 1987-1996, this paper investigates the direct displacement effects of active labour market programmes (ALMPs). Compared to earlier studies on this topic, we have more and better data. From our GMM estimations, we find that (i) there are...

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Inequality and crime: separating the effects of permanent and transitory income

Dahlberg, Matz; Gustavsson, Magnus - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2005

Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite likely that it is changes in permanent rather than in transitory income that affects crime rates. The purpose of this paper is therefore to disentangle the two effects by,...

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Active labour market policies and real-wage determination - Swedish evidence

Forslund, Anders; Kolm, Ann-Sofie - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2000

A number of earlier studies have examined whether extensive labour market programmes (ALMPs) contribute to upward wage pressure in the Swedish economy. Most studies on aggregate data have concluded that they actually do. In this paper we look at this issue using more recent data to check whether...

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