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Unemployment and Labour Market Transitions in the Czech Republic: Evidence from Micro-Data
Huitfeldt, H. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998
The Czech labour market performance in early 1990s has widely been regarded as a success story. In particular, the Czech unemployment rate has been one of the lowest in Europe. IN this paper, we provide a microperspective on the Czech labour market by using data from the Czech labour force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669613
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Does Unemployment Hysteresis Equal Employment Hysteresis?
Gustavsson, Magnus; Österholm, Pär - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2006
This paper investigates if conclusions regarding labour market hysteresis differ depending on whether employment or unemployment rates are studied. Applying a range of unit-root tests to monthly data from Australia, Austria, Canada, Finland, Sweden, the U.K. and the U.S., we find results for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419209
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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
This paper is concerned with the labor market experience of Swedish youths during the 1980s and the 1990s. The first objective is to portray early economic attainment among young Swedes. The second objective of the paper is to examine the impact of labor market programs on youth employment. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419214
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Job Polarization and Task-Biased Technological Change: Sweden, 1975–2005
Adermon, Adrian; Gustavsson, Magnus - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
This paper investigates the connection between the Swedish wage profile of net job creation and Autor, Levy, and Murnane’s (2003) proposed substitutability between routine tasks and technology. We first show that between 1975 and 2005, Sweden exhibited a pattern of job polarization with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322948
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Job Polarization and Task-Biased Technological Change: Sweden, 1975–2005
Adermon, Adrian; Gustavsson, Magnus - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
This paper investigates the connection between the Swedish wage profile of net job creation and Autor, Levy, and Murnane’s (2003) proposed substitutability between routine tasks and technology. We first show that between 1975 and 2005, Sweden exhibited a pattern of job polarization with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322954
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Entrepreneurship and Liquidity Constraints: Evidence from Sweden
Nykvist, Jenny - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2005
between initial wealth and entrepreneurship. However, in a recent paper Hurst and Lusardi (2004) use higher order of … wealth and transition into entrepreneurship is positive but diminishing for the major part of the wealth distribution …. Moreover, the relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship gets stronger as the models get less restricted with respect to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644574
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Hidden consequences of a first-born boy for mothers
Ichino, Andrea; Lindström, Elly-Anne; Viviano, Eliana - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical week and work fewer hours than women with first-born girls. The puzzle is why women in these countries react in this way to the sex of their first child, which is chosen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690440
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Marriage Stability, Taxation and Aggregate Labor Supply in the U.S. vs. Europe
Chakraborty, Indraneel; Stepanchuk, Serhiy; Holter, Hans A. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro data from the U.S. and 17 European countries, we study the contributions from demographic subgroups to these aggregate level dierences. We document that women are typically the largest contributors to the discrepancy in work hours. We also document...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700373
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Marriage Stability, Taxation and Aggregate Labor Supply in the U.S. vs. Europe
Holter, Hans A; Chakraborty, Indraneel; Stepanchuk, Serhiy - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro data from the U.S. and 17 European countries, we study the contributions from demographic subgroups to these aggregate level dierences. We document that women are typically the largest contributors to the discrepancy in work hours. We also document...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762003
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Is Early Retirement Encouraged by the Employer? Labor-Demand Effects of Age-Related Collective Fees
Hallberg, Daniel - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
In Sweden, employers pay non-wage costs for their workforce in the form of legislated employment tax and collective fees. For parts of the workforce, the collective fees are progressive with respect to the employee’s age and wage. The objective of this paper is to examine how non-wage costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008873314