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Ethnic minority youths in the labour markets in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
Niknami, Susan; Schröder, Lena; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2019
This paper uses administrative data to in detail document how the share of youths not in employment, education or training has evolved over time in the Scandinavian countries. We study both first- and second-generation immigrant youths as well as natives to explore whether the pattern differ...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998496
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Generating legitimacy for labor market and welfare state reforms : the role of policy advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden
Eichhorst, Werner (contributor); Wintermann, Ole (contributor) - 2005
structured and to what it extent it could influence actual policy-making in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden over the last …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003285403
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Leaving the labor market early in Sweden : learning from international experience
Bengtsson, Mats G.; König, Stefanie; Schönbeck, Simon; … - 2022
not everyone is able to work to such a higher age. Sweden, like other countries, has several options for early exit from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013209886
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Female labor market transitions in Europe
Kaiser, Lutz C. (contributor) - 2006
Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003316483
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Labor market reforms in Europe : towards more flexicure labor markets?
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Wehner, Caroline - 2016
Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in important areas, including macro‐economic efficiency, workers' wellbeing and repercussions for social cohesion. European countries have started a new wave of labor market reforms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455858
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325999
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Child care and parental leave in the Nordic countries : a model to aspire to?
Gupta, Nabanita Datta (contributor); Smith, Nina (contributor) - 2006
The Nordic countries have remarkably high participation rates of mothers and a moderate decrease of fertility rates compared to other western countries. This has been attributed to the fact that the welfare state model and, especially, the family friendly policies chosen in the Nordic countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003292056
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Older immigrants - new poverty risk in Scandinavian welfare states?
Gustafsson, Björn; Jakobsen, Vibeke; Mac Innes, Hanna; … - 2021
, Yugoslavia and Turkey living in Denmark or Sweden in 2010. Income data on all such persons aged 65 to 82 living in the two … destination countries are analysed. In both Denmark and Sweden, we report much higher poverty rates among the immigrants studied … counterparts with the same characteristics who had immigrated to Sweden. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705399
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Brother correlations in earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden compared to the United States
Björklund, Anders; Eriksson, Tor; Jäntti, Markus; … - 2000
between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) on the other. Our base …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335242
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Does integration policy integrate? : the employment effects of Sweden's 2010 reform of the introduction program
Qi, Haodong; Irastorza, Nahikari; Emilsson, Henrik; … - 2019
Sweden, like many other European countries, has seen a surge in refugee immigrants over recent years, which raises a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012107349