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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 …
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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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Technology and Labor Regulations
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2013
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 …
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The employment effect of reforming a public employment agency
Launov, Andrey; Wälde, Klaus - 2015
By how much does an increase in operating effectiveness of a public employment agency (PEA) and a reduction of unemployment benefits reduce unemployment? Using a recent labour market reform in Germany as background, we find that an enhanced effectiveness of the PEA explains about 20% of the...
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Outsourcing of unionized firms and the impacts of labour market policy reforms
Koskela, Erkki (contributor); Schöb, Ronnie (contributor) - 2008
This paper shows that outsourcing of parts of the workforce in unionized firms leads to wage moderation and as long as 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...
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Unemployment in a just economy
Komlos, John - 2016
This paper is based on the ideas of political philosopher John Rawls who suggested that a just society is one which would be created behind a "veil of ignorance", that is to say, without knowing where one would end up in the society's distribution of talent and other attributes valued in the...
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Employment in Black Urban Labor Markets : Problems and Solutions
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2014
Blacks in the United States are poorer than whites and have much lower employment rates. "Place-based" policies seek to improve the labor markets in which blacks - especially low-income urban blacks - tend to reside. We first review the literature on spatial mismatch, which provides much of the...
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Labor market institutions, fiscal multipliers, and macroeconomic volatility
Boeck, Maximilian; Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Glocker, … - 2022
We study empirically how various labor market institutions - (i) union density, (ii) unemployment benefit remuneration, and (iii) employment protection - shape fiscal multipliers and output volatility. Our theoretical model highlights that more stringent labor market institutions attenuate both...
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Law and Employment : Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean
Heckman, James J.; Pages, Carmen - 2021
of regulation in Latin America and OECD Europe and discusses the origin of regulation. It shows the fragility of time … series data analyses of the sort widely used to analyze the impact of regulation in OECD Europe and the benefits of using …
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Labor market institutions and the cost of recessions
Krebs, Tom; Scheffel, Martin - 2016
This paper studies the effect of two labor market institutions, unemployment insurance (UI) and job search assistance (JSA), on the output cost and welfare cost of recessions. The paper develops a tractable incomplete-market model with search unemployment, skill depreciation during unemployment,...
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