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Macroeconomic shocks and racial labour market differences in the U.S.

De, Kuhelika; Compton, Ryan A.; Giedeman, Daniel C.; … - 2019

Using 136 United States macroeconomic indicators from 1973 to 2017, and a factor augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) framework with sign restrictions, we investigate the effects of three structural macroeconomic shocks - monetary, demand, and supply - on the labour market outcomes of black...

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Business strategy and firm reorganization under changing market conditions

Ghosal, Vivek - 2009

Sweden. I find interesting differences and similarities in the firms’ strategies in terms of how they responded to these …

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Reduction of employment protection in Europe : a comparative fuzzy-set analysis

Ochel, Wolfgang; Rohwer, Anja - 2009

, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the conditions of the reduction of employment protection and takes a closer …

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What should fiscal councils do?

Calmfors, Lars; Wren-Lewis, Simon - 2011

The paper analyses theoretically what role fiscal councils could play and surveys empirically the activities of existing councils. Case studies of the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council and the UK Office for Budget Responsibility are done. It is concluded that fiscal councils should be advisory,...

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Voluntary public unemployment insurance

Parsons, Donald O.; Tranæs, Torben; Lilleør, Helene Bie - 2003

Voluntary public unemployment systems are limited to a handful of countries, including Finland, Sweden, and, more …

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Ageing and the tax implied in public pension schemes : simulations for selected OECD countries

Fenge, Robert; Werding, Martin - 2003

, this will be illustrated for the cases of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the UK, and the US. The results are based …

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Voluntary public unemployment insurance

Parsons, Donald O.; Tranæs, Torben; Lilleør, Helene Bie - 2015

Denmark has drawn much attention for its active labor market policies, but is almost unique in offering a voluntary public unemployment insurance program requiring a significant premium payment. A safety net program--a less generous, means-tested social assistance plan-completes the system. The...

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Who participates in tax avoidance?

Alstadsæter, Annette; Jacob, Martin - 2013

This paper analyzes the sources of heterogeneity in legal tax avoidance strategies across individuals. Three conditions are required for a taxpayer to participate in tax avoidance: incentive, access, and awareness. Using rich Swedish administrative panel data with a unique link between corporate...

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Labor market effects of COVID-19 in Sweden and its neighbors : evidence from novel administrative data

Juranek, Steffen; Paetzold, Jörg; Winner, Hannes; … - 2020

’), Sweden decided for much lighter restrictions. Empirically, we use novel administrative data on weekly new unemployment and … furlough spells from all 56 regions of the Nordic countries to compare the labor market outcomes of Sweden with the ones of its … neighbors. Our evidence suggests that the labor markets of all countries were severely hit by the pandemic, although Sweden …

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How does the market use citation data? The Hirsch Index in Economics

Ellison, Glenn - 2010

A large literature following Hirsch (2005) has proposed citation-based indexes that could be used to rank academics. This paper examines how well several such indexes match labor market outcomes using data on the citation records of young tenured economists at 25 U.S. departments. Variants of...

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