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Effects of contracting out employment services: Evidence from a randomized experiment

Bennmarker, Helge; Grönqvist, Erik; Öckert, Björn - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012

empirically assess the effectiveness of contracting out employment services to private placement agencies. Our results show that … Employment Service (PES); e.g., they receive more assistance in improving their job search technology. We do not find any overall … difference in the chances of finding employment between private placement agencies and the PES, but this hides important …

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Effects of contracting out employment services: Evidence from a randomized experiment

Bennmarker, Helge; Grönqvist, Erik; Öckert, Björn - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818886

Do Benefit Cuts Boost Job Findings? Swedish Evidence from the 1990s.

Carling, K.; Holmlund, B.; Vejsiu, A. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999

In June 1995, the Swedish parliament decided to cut the replacement rate in unemployment insurance from 80 percent to 75 percent, a change that took effect on January 1, 1996. This paper examines how this change affected job finding rates among unemployed insured individuals. To identify the...

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Optimal Taxation in Search Equilibrium with Home Production.

Engstrom, P.; Holmlund, B.; Kolm, A.-S. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2001

The paper develops a two-sector general equilibrium search model where "goods" are produced exclusively in the market and "services" are produced both in the market and within the households. We use the model to examine how unemployment and welfare are affected by labor taxes in general and...

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Economic Integration, Imperfect Competition, and International Policy Coordination.

Holmlund, B.; Kolm, A.-S. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999

as a reduction in trade costs. We explore how market integration influences policy spillovers, employment and real wages …. We also examine how national and supranational commodity tax policies affect sectoral and total employment. Finally, we …

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Labor Taxation in Search Equilibrium with Home Production.

Holmlund, B. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000

hold. This paper uses a search equilibrium model with home production to examine the employment and welfare implications of … labor taxes. The employment effect of a rise in a proportional tax is found to be negative for sufficiently low replacement … employment generally falls when proportional labor taxes are raised. Progressive labor taxes increase labor market tightness but …

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