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Job Search and Youth Unemployment: Analysis of Swedish Data

Albrecht, James W.; Holmlund, Bertil; Lang, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1988

No abstract.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684443

Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005

We highlight the role of commuting cost, location and housing market in crime decision. By assuming that all crimes are committed in the central business district and that criminals create both positive and negative externalities to each other, we find that high wages or large levels of police...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419518

Taxation in a Search Model of the Housing Market

Lundborg, Per; Skedinger, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1995

No abstract.

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Property Taxation, Bounded Rationality and House Prices

Elinder, Mikael; Persson, Lovisa - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

In 2008, the Swedish property tax was reformed and a cap on yearly tax liabilities was introduced. A large fraction of owner occupied houses was subject to a substantial decrease in the tax. When the reform was announced, most analysts projected – in line with tax capitalization theory –...

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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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Wages and Labour Scarcity: The Microfoundations of the Determination of Factor Shares

Schager, Nils Henrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989

explanatory unemployment variable in the Phillips relation is intuitively to be regarded as an indicator of labour scarcity … intermediate step between unemployment and wage inflation. Contributions by Kuh, Solow and Stiglitz in the late sixties follow this …, it is hard to derive the desired result that the wage share increases when unemployment falls. Monopolistic price …

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Is There a Long-Run Trade-Off between Inflation and Unemployment?

Axell, Bo; Lang, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1985

How are inflation and unemployment related in the long run? Are they negatively correlated, as in the so-called naive … in his Nobel lecture? <p> In this paper inflation is introduced into a general equilibrium search unemployment model. We …

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Private Equity, Layoffs, and Job Polarization

Olsson, Martin; Tåg, Joacim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015

Although private equity firms are often criticized for layoffs, little evidence exists regarding which employees lose their jobs and why. We argue that explanations for the job polarization process can also explain layoffs after buyouts. Buyouts reduce agency problems, which triggers automation,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262892

The European Unemployment Dilemma

Ljungqvist, Lars; Sargent, Thomas J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

Post World War II European welfare states experienced several decades of relatively low unemployment, followed by a … plague of persistently high unemployment since the 1980s. We impute the higher unemployment to welfare states' diminished … search model where workers accumulate skills on the job and lose skills during unemployment. …

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