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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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A cross-country comparison of dynamics in the large firm wage premium

Colonnelli, Emanuele; Tåg, Joacim; Webb, Michael; … - 2018

We provide stylized facts on the existence and dynamics over time of the large firm wage premium for four countries. We examine matched employer-employee micro-data from Brazil, Germany, Sweden, and the UK, and find that the large firm premium exists in all these countries. However, we uncover...

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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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Well-being effects of self-employment : a spatial inquiry

Abreu, Maria; Öner, Özge; Brouwer, Aleid; Leeuwen, … - 2018

Our paper presents an empirical analysis of entrepreneurial well-being using a large-scale longitudinal household survey from the UK that tracks almost 50,000 individuals across seven waves over the period 2009-2017, as well as a number of exploratory case studies. We contribute to the existing...

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Explaining cross-country differences in labor market gaps between immigrants and natives in the OECD

Bergh, Andreas - 2014

In most OECD-countries, immigrants have lower employment and higher unemployment than natives. This paper compares nine … unemployment gap is bigger in countries where collective bargaining agreements cover a larger share of the labor market. The …

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An unemployment insurance scheme for the euro area? : a comparison of different alternatives using micro data

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Neumann, Dirk; Peichl, … - 2015

We analyze different options for the design of a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA). We assess … degree of cross-country transfers. In the baseline, we focus on a non-contingent scheme covering short-term unemployment and … find that it would have absorbed a significant fraction of the unemployment shock in the recent crisis. However, four …

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The redistributive and stabilising effects of an EMU unemployment benefit scheme under different hypothetical unemployment scenarios

Jara, H. Xavier; Tumino, Alberto; Sutherland, Holly - 2015

The idea of a common unemployment benefit system for the European Monetary Union (EMU) has provoked increasing interest … introduction of an EMU unemployment insurance (EMU-UI) scheme, for a selected number of countries of the Monetary Union. Our …

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