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Effects of Increasing Minimum Wages on Employment and Hours: Evidence from Sweden’s Retail Sector
Skedinger, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011
This paper examines the effects of collectively agreed increases in real minimum wages on employment transitions and hours among manual workers in the Swedish retail sector over the period 2001–05. The findings indicate that increases in real minimum wages are associated with more separations,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914357
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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
badly in the labor market in the sense of long-term unemployment or low annual earnings lack noncognitive but not cognitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771088
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How Wage Compression Affects Job Turnover
Heyman, Fredrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
I use Swedish establishment-level panel data to test Bertola and Rogerson’s (1997) hypothesis of a positive relation between the degree of wage compression and job reallocation. Results indicate that the effect of wage compression on job turnover is positive and significant in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645384
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An Equilibrium Model of Search Unemployment
Albrecht, James W; Axell, Bo - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1983
distribution is endogenously determined. We use this model to analyze the comparative statics effects of increases in unemployment … compensation on the unemployment rate and aggregate welfare taking into account the induced change in the wage offer distribution … a selective increase in unemployment compensation, made available to those who impute a relatively low value to leisure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684408
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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
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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
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684443
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The West European Employment Problem
Lindbeck, Assar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996
How do we explain the poor employment performance in Western Europe since about the-1970s? This question is in fact twofold : What initiated the dramatic rise in employment, and waht mechanisms have made it continue for so long? My attemps to answer these questions from the basis for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010600190
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The West European Employment Problem.
Lindbeck, A. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996
How do we explain the poor employment performance in Western Europe since about the-1970s? This question is in fact twofold : What initiated the dramatic rise in employment, and waht mechanisms have made it continue for so long? My attemps to answer these questions from the basis for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486501
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019057
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Assessing the Decline of Wage Dispersion in Sweden
Björklund, Anders - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1986
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684431