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Female labor market transitions in Europe
Kaiser, Lutz C. (contributor) - 2006
Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In...
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Labor market reforms in Europe : towards more flexicure labor markets?
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Wehner, Caroline - 2016
Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in important areas, including macro‐economic efficiency, workers' wellbeing and repercussions for social cohesion. European countries have started a new wave of labor market reforms...
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Migration, redistribution and the universal welfare model
Andersen, Torben M. - 2012
The universal Scandinavian welfare model offers generous tax financed social benefits. The scheme is associated with workfare elements as a targeting device to direct benefits to those considered deserving. Thereby social insurance and egalitarian outcomes are achieved while work incentives and...
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Older immigrants - new poverty risk in Scandinavian welfare states?
Gustafsson, Björn; Jakobsen, Vibeke; Mac Innes, Hanna; … - 2021
, Yugoslavia and Turkey living in Denmark or Sweden in 2010. Income data on all such persons aged 65 to 82 living in the two … destination countries are analysed. In both Denmark and Sweden, we report much higher poverty rates among the immigrants studied … counterparts with the same characteristics who had immigrated to Sweden. …
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Does integration policy integrate? : the employment effects of Sweden's 2010 reform of the introduction program
Qi, Haodong; Irastorza, Nahikari; Emilsson, Henrik; … - 2019
Sweden, like many other European countries, has seen a surge in refugee immigrants over recent years, which raises a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012107349
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The iceberg decomposition: a parsimonious way to map the health of labour markets
Baert, Stijn - 2020
This article introduces the metaphor of the iceberg in the labour market. While policy in most OECD countries has historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much larger. Therefore, we point to the clear...
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TIPping the scales towards greater employment chances? : evaluation of a Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for newly-arrived immigrants based on random program assignment
Andersson Joona, Pernilla; Nekby, Lena - 2009
A Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for newly-arrived immigrants to Sweden was implemented from October 2006 to June …
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Swedish labor market training and the duration of unemployment
Richardson, Katarina (contributor);  … - 2006
"The vocational employment training program is the most ambitious and expensive training program in Sweden and a …
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The rise and fall of Swedish unemployment
Holmlund, Bertil - 2003
By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507743
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Does active labour market policy work? : lessons from the Swedish experiences
Calmfors, Lars; Forslund, Anders; Hemström, Maria - 2002
Sweden. On the whole, ALMPs have probably reduced open unemployment, but also reduced regular employment. The overall policy … conclusion is that ALMPs of the scale used in Sweden in the 1990s are not an efficient means of employment policy. To be …
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