the effect of employment protection rules on labor productivity using micro data on Swedish firms. A reform of the … the seniority rules. I exploit the reform as a natural experiment. My results indicate that increased labor market …

also to existing employments, the cost of the reform was sizable, and the estimated cost per created job is at more than …

ending of sickness spells. The 1991 reform, which reduced the replacement rate, had a stronger effect on reducing the … duration of short-term absences than the 1987 reform, which restricted the payment of sickness cash benefit to only scheduled …

The effects of a recent Swedish child-care fee reform are compared with those of an alternative reform, increased child … benefits. The fee reform implied considerably decreased fees and was intended to increase both labor supply among parents and … aversion, the alternative reform would have been preferable to the implemented fee reform. <p> …

employed relatively many young workers before the first reform, with estimated effects commensurate with small behavioural …