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 …

Many low skilled jobs have been substituted away for machines in Europe, or eliminated, much more so than in the US …, while technological progress at the quot;topquot;, i.e. at the high-tech sector, is faster in the US than in Europe. This … paper suggests that the main difference between Europe and the US in this respect is their different labor market policies …