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Hensvik, Lena; Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Rathelot, Roland - 2021

This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and job ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, new vacancy postings drop by 40%, similar to the US. Second, job seekers respond by searching less intensively, to the...

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The heterogeneous earnings impact of job loss across workers, establishments, and markets

Athey, Susan; Simon, Lisa; Nordström Skans, Oskar; … - 2024

Using generalized random forests and rich Swedish administrative data, we show that the earnings effects of job displacement due to establishment closures are highly heterogeneous. We find as much heterogeneity within as across closing establishments, and within as across worker types defined by...

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Minimum wages and firm-level employment in a developing country

Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2020

The effect of minimum wages on employment is a matter of debate, and the existing empirical literature contains mixed results. One reason for this is the methodological difficulties involved where changes in minimum wages are endogenous to other important economic changes. To overcome this...

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International trade and labor market integration of immigrants

Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020

We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...

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Effects of increasing minimum wages on employment and hours : evidence from Sweden's retail sector

Skedinger, Per - 2011

This paper examines the effects of collectively agreed increases in real minimum wages on employment transitions and hours among manual workers in the Swedish retail sector over the period 2001-05. The findings indicate that increases in real minimum wages are associated with more separations,...

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Labor market effects of a youth summer employment program in Sweden

Knutsson, Daniel; Tyrefors, Björn - 2024

We evaluate a non-targeted summer youth employment program (SYEP) for high school students aged 16-19 in Stockholm, Sweden, where public sector job offers were as good as randomly assigned. In contrast to previous studies evaluating SYEP that targeted groups with lower socioeconomic status, we...

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Labor market effects of a youth summer employment program in Sweden

Knutsson, Daniel; Tyrefors, Björn - 2024

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An international comparison of the contribution to job creation by high-growth firms

Anyadike-Danes, Michael; Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Dumont, … - 2018 - Version: 8 May 2018

The basic principle governing the development of the accounting framework is the choice of appropriate comparators. Firstly, when measuring contributions to job creation, we should focus on just job creating firms, otherwise we are summing over contributions from firms with positive, zero, and...

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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2017

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante threat of sanctions. Based on a large inflow sample into unemployment … unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We estimate multispell …

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Predicting re-employment : machine learning versus assessments by unemployed workers and by their caseworkers

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Kunaschk, Max; Lang, Julia; … - 2023

the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were asked for their perceived probability of …

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