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Vacancy Matching and Labor Market Conditions
Stadin, Karolina - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
unemployment has a weak positive effect on the probability of filling a vacancy, while the number of vacancies in the local labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699694
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644530
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Trade, Earnings, and Mobility - Swedish Evidence.
Edin, P.-A.; Fredriksson, P.; Lundborg, P. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000
Using a large longitudinal data set, we study the effects of increased trade on earnings and mobility in the Swedish labor market in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Earnings respond significantly to changes in industry sales, whether generated by domestic market forces or international trade:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005634561
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Trade, Earnings, and Mobility - Swedish Evidence.
Edin, P.-A.; Fredriksson, P.; Lundborg, P. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000
Using a large longitudinal data set, we study the effects of increased trade on earnings and mobility in the Swedish labor market in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Earnings respond significantly to changes in industry sales, whether generated by domestic market forces or international trade:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669598
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The Swedish Youth Labor Market in Boom and Depression
Edin, Per-Anders; Forslund, Anders; Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998
increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419214
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Unemployment, Labour Market Programmes and Wage Determination: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics.
Huitfeldt, H. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2001
This paper studies effects of unemployment and labour market programmes on real wages in the Czech and Slovak Republics … using district paneldata for the period 1992-1998. Clear wage exists in both countries. The estimated unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005479151
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Unemployment and Labour Market Transitions in the Czech Republic: Evidence from Micro-Data
Huitfeldt, H. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998
Czech unemployment rate has been one of the lowest in Europe. IN this paper, we provide a microperspective on the Czech … investigate the determinants of transitions between employment, unemployment, and non-participation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669613
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Ranking of Job Applicants, On-the-Job Search and Persistent Unemployment.
Eriksson, S.; Gottfries, N. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000
employment status affects both the level and the persistence of unemployment and numerically that these effects are substantial … exp lain the high and persistent European unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005634556
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The Swedish Youth Labor Market in Boom and Depression
Edin, P.-A.; Forslund, A.; Holmlund, B. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998
increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labour market programs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669562
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Deltidsarbetslöshet och arbetslöshetsförsäkring i Sverige (Part-time unemployment and unemployment insurance in Sweden)
Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010
Conventional measures of unemployment do not capture all dimensions of joblessness. A case in point is underemployment … among employed workers, also frequently referred to as parttime unemployment. Workers in this category are employed during a … unemployment. By the end of 2009, part-time unemployment stood at almost 5 percent of the labor force in the OECD area. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008753243