.We then estimate our sufficient statistics using administrative data on unemployment, income and wealth in Sweden. First, we … Sweden has decreased welfare. In fact, the local welfare gains push towards an increasing rather than decreasing benefit …

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the …

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 …

The vocational employment training program is the most ambitious and expensive training program in Sweden and a …

administrative data in Sweden. Compared to using standard socio-demographic variables, the predictive power more than doubles when …

Today, Europe is a continent of low participation, low employment labor markets. Many observers would like to blame … Europeans. Layered on top of these weak labor markets is the rapid onset of aging; if policies are not changed, Europe will lose … about a million workers every year for the next five decades, especially in the 2030s. In short, Europe has to increase both …