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Long term effects of public policy for displaced workers in Sweden – shipyard workers in the West and miners in the North

Ohlsson, Henry; Storrie, Donald - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007

shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …

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Family Job Search, Wage Bargaining, and Optimal Unemployment Insurance

Holmlund, Bertil; Ek, Susanne - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010

systems, recognizing the role of spousal employment as partial substitute for public insurance. The optimal system involves …

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Optimal Non-Linear Income Taxation in Search Equilibrium

Engström, Per - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2002

The paper extends the basic Stiglitz (1982) model of optimal income taxation into general search equilibrium. When we extend the basic taxation model to include a more realistic treatment of the labor market, a number of new interesting mechanisms arise. When wages are fixed we find that a "work...

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Worker Absenteeism in Search Equilibrium

Engström, Per; Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2005

The paper presents a tractable general equilibrium model of search unemployment that incorporates absence from work as a distinct labor force state. Absenteeism is driven by random shocks to the value of leisure that are private information to the workers. Firms offer wages, and possibly sick...

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Labor Taxation in Search Equililbrium with Home Production

Holmlund, Bertil - 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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Sickness Absence and Search Unemployment

Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2004

benefits affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and …

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Does Tax Evation Affect Unemployment and Educational Choice?

Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2003

While examining the macroeconomic effects of government tax and punishment policies, this paper develops a three-sector general equilibrium model featuring matching frictions and worker-firm wage bargaining. Workers are assumed to differ in ability, and the choice of education is determined...

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Unemployment and Labour Market Transitions in the Czech Republic: Evidence from Micro-data

Huitfeldt, Henrik - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1996

investigate the determinants of transitions between employment, unemployment, and non-participation. The paper consists of two …

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Does Sick Absence Increase the Risk of Unemployment?

Hesselius, Patrik - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2003

The paper examines whether a worker's sick absence behaviour influences the risk of becoming unemployed. Swedish panel data are used to estimate the relationship between the incidence and duration of sick leave and subsequent unemployment. The results indicate that an increase in the number of...

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Social Interactions and Unemployment

Hedström, Peter; Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Åberg, Yvonne - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2003

This paper is concerned with social interactions and their importance for unemployment. A theoretical model is specified in which the social and psychological costs of unemployment depend upon the unemployment level. The theoretical analysis reveals social multiplier effects, and shows that...

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