theoretic framework. Utilizing an RD design, we analyse responses to a nationwide Swedish youth activation program. We find that …

, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and …

This paper examines the degree of persistence of youth unemployment (total, male and female) in twenty-four countries …

aside of transitions from unemployment and employment within a multivariate duration model that controls for selection on … observables and unobservables. We find that prolonging unemployment drastically decreases the chances of finding employment, but … hardly affects the quality of subsequent employment. The analysis suggests that negative duration dependence in the job …

The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s … percent. We examine whether relatively standard wage and employment equations can account for the volatile economic … demand equations suggest that cuts in working time may have slightly increased employment as firms substituted workers for …

the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the … direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized firms as outsourcing costs fall. This does not … for employment. However, except for low outsourcing activities, the impact of these policy measures will become smaller as …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and …

In this paper we analyse the short- and long-run relationship between employment growth, inflation and output growth in … causality tests. The empirical results strongly support the existence of a single cointegrating relationship between employment … growth, inflation and output growth with bidirectional causality between employment growth and inflation as well as output …

age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime … employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of apprenticeship and vocational training. There are no significant …