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We use a Swedish sickness insurance reform to show that among married couples a partner’s benefit level affects spousal labour supply. The spousal elasticity of sick days with respect to the partner’s benefit is estimated to be 0.4, which is about one-fourth of the own labor supply...
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This paper uses a large-scale two-level randomized experiment to study direct and displacement effects of job search assistance. Our findings show that the assistance reduces unemployment among the treated, but also creates substantial displacement leading to higher unemployment for the...
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in Sweden in 2010 which reduced capital requirements for limited liability companies. For both men and women the reform …
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In Sweden, as in many other countries, marginal groups tend to be overrepresented in nonstandard employment. A … considerably smaller in Sweden, both for natives and foreign born, than those that have been found for other countries. This may be … due to a highly compressed wage structure and extensive coverage of collective bargaining in Sweden. On the whole, the …
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We use a Swedish sickness insurance reform to show that among married couples a partner's benefit level affects spousal labour supply. The spousal elasticity of sick days with respect to the partner's benefit is estimated to be 0.4, which is about one-fourth of the own labor supply elasticity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320203
estimate fixed effects models following direct heirs, inheriting in 2004, during the years 2000-2008 using Swedish panel data …
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This paper starts out with a brief discussion of the historical background, the justifications and the political forces behind the built up of the modern welfare state. It also summarizes its major achievements in terms of economic efficiency and redistribution. The paper also tries to identify...
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in Sweden in 2001. According to our differences-in-difference estimates, aggregate absence in these firms fell by 0 …
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Sweden, we adopt several different approaches to deal with these problems. The results are robust in the sense that …
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The current political turmoil in the Arab world has contributed to renewed interest in the Barcelona Process. This paper explores whether deeper integration in the form of trade facilitation – i.e. improved and simplified trade procedures – could be an important part of a reform agenda....
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