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Decentralisation of Active Labour Market Policy: The Case of Swedish Local Employment Service Committees.

Lundin, M.; Skedinger, P. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 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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Liberalized Trade and Worker-Firm Matching

Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

matching between workers and firms in export-oriented industries. Changes that reduce the cost of imports have an ambiguous … impact on matching. We combine detailed Swedish matched worker-firm data from 1995 – 2005 with tariff data to test these …

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Globalization and Imperfect Labor Market Sorting

Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

evidence that openness improves the matching between workers and firms in export-oriented industries. This suggests that there … efficiency of the matching process in the labor market. On the other hand, we find no evidence that openness affects the degree … of matching in import-competing industries. These results remain unchanged after adding controls for technical change at …

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The Glass Ceiling in Politics: Formalization and Empirical Tests

Folke, Olle; Rickne, Johanna - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

There is a scarcity of women and minorities at the apex of political power. This paper formalizes the concept of the glass ceiling for political organizations and builds on previous research to suggest four testable criteria. A glass ceiling exists if women and/or racial minorities (1) are...

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Explaining National Differences in the Size and Industrial Distribution of Employment

Davis, Steven J.; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

What factors determine national differences in the size and industry distribution of employment? This study stresses the role of business taxation, employment security laws, credit market policies, wage-setting institutions and the size of the public sector. We characterize these aspects of the...

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An Evaluation of the Swedish Earned Income Tax Credit

Edmark, Karin; Liang, Che-Yuan; Mörk, Eva; Selin, Håkan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

Over the last twenty years we have seen an increasing use of in-work tax subsidies to encourage labor supply among low-income groups. In Sweden, a non-targeted earned income tax credit was introduced in 2007, and was reinforced in 2008, 2009 and 2010. The stated motive of the reform was to boost...

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The Labor Market Returns to Cognitive and Noncognitive Ability: Evidence from the Swedish Enlistment

Lindqvist, Erik; Westman, Roine - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

We use data from the military enlistment for a large representative sample of Swedish men to assess the importance of cognitive and noncognitive ability for labor market outcomes. The measure of noncognitive ability is based on a personal interview conducted by a psychologist. Unlike...

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A Continuous Theory of Income Insurance

Lindbeck, Assar; Persson, Mats - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

In this paper we treat an individual’s health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on income insurance, where it is regularly treated as a binary variable. This is not a minor technical matter; in fact, a continuous treatment of an individual’s health sheds new...

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A Model of Income Insurance and Social Norms

Lindbeck, Assar; Persson, Mats - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006

A large literature on ex ante moral hazard in income insurance emphasizes that the individual can affect the probability of an income loss by choice of lifestyle and hence, the degree of risk-taking. The much smaller literature on moral hazard ex post mainly analyzes how a “moral hazard...

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Full Employment and the Welfare State.

Lindbeck, A. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996

What were the asserted complementarities between the welfare state and full-employment policies, and why do these complementarities look less convincing today?

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