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Buch, Claudia M.; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2009

Globalization may impose a double-burden on low-skilled workers. On the one hand, the relative supply of low-skilled labor increases. This suppresses wages of low-skilled workers and/or increases their unemployment rates. On the other hand, low-skilled workers typically face more limited access...

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Using Self-Employment as Proxy for Entrepreneurship : Some Empirical Caveats

Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael - 2014

-employment sometimes differs diametrically depending on source. Sweden is occasionally erroneously reported to show the largest increase in …

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Skatter, tjänster och sysselsättning : betänkande av Tjänstebeskattningsutredningen

1997

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Wage and employment determination in volatile times : Sweden 1913-1939

Holmlund, Bertil - 2012 - This version: April 18, 2012

The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...

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Glastak och glasväggar? : Den könssegregerade arbetsmarknaden ; rapport till Utredningen om Fördelningen av Ekonomisk Makt och Ekonomiska Resurser Mellan Kvinnor och Män

Persson, Inga (contributor) - 1998

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The turnaround of the Swedish economy : lessons from large business sector reforms

Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2019

How can a country improve the productivity growth in its business sector and reach its growth potential? Sweden during … sector. In the 1990s, Sweden implemented a reform package that ignited a successful reorganization of a business sector that … of Sweden's reforms. We also discuss how the reform experience from a developed country such as Sweden can be useful for …

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Native welfare losses from high skilled immigration

Kemnitz, Alexander (contributor) - 2008

This paper explores the effects of high skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on low skilled employment, provided that fiscal...

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Outsourcing, unemployment and welfare policy

Keuschnigg, Christian (contributor); … - 2008

The paper investigates the consequences of outsourcing of labor intensive activities to low-wage economies. This trend challenges the two basic functions of the welfare state, redistribution and social insurance when private unemployment insurance markets are missing. The main results are: (i)...

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Comparative advantage and skill-specific unemployment

Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2009

We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two sectors and heterogeneous firms. This allows us to study the distributional consequences and the skill-specific unemployment effects of trade liberalization. We show that the...

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Why do low- and high-skill workers migrate? : flow evidence from France

Gross, Dominique M. (contributor); … - 2006

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