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Using cross-country time series panel regressions for the last two decades, this paper seeks to identify the main policy and institutional factors that explain the share of self-employment across European countries. It looks at the aggregate share of self-employed as well as its breakdown by...
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Over the past two decades, there have been significant changes in family dynamics and labor market interactions, with shifts in fertility, marriage, divorce, cohabitation, family labor supply, gender inequality, and childrearing. This chapter examines the impact of government policies on these...
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proportional tax. DIT systems were introduced in Sweden, Norway, and Finland in the early 1990s. In the absence of rules … review the principles of the income splitting rules of Sweden, Norway, and Finland. I then discuss some of the trade …
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indicator of output quality, Finland is the most efficient Nordic country (often fully efficient), whereas Sweden and especially …
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By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the …
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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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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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structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are the result of different investment decisions by firms for the jobs … typically held by less-skilled workers. Firms in Europe have more incentives to invest in less-skilled workers, because minimum …
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