. Employment has been rising, but the labor force expanded even more, resulting in higher unemployment mostly among vulnerable …

financial crisis. Economic growth in Sweden has been moderate since global financial crisis of 2008–2009. The IMF report … posits that with potential growth moderately weaker and the natural rate of unemployment to remain elevated, policies should … of Swedish international banking groups are expected to benefit borrowers not only in Sweden but across the region. …

We study the role of uncertainty shocks in explaining unemployment dynamics, separating out the role of aggregate and … measure aggregate and sectoral uncertainty and compare their effects on the unemployment rate in a standard macroeconomic … vector autoregressive (VAR) model. We find that aggregate uncertainty leads to an immediate increase in unemployment, with …

Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden form a tightly integrated region which has strong ties with the euro area as well … independent monetary policy, and Denmark and Norway are net energy exporters while Finland and Sweden are energy importers. We …