, Sweden, where public sector job offers were as good as randomly assigned. In contrast to previous studies evaluating SYEP …

This paper evaluates an ambitious and newly designed program for increased integration in Sweden. The purpose of the …

assistance. Our findings show that the assistance reduces unemployment among the treated, but also creates substantial … displacement leading to higher unemployment for the non-treated. By using detailed information on caseworker and job seeker … unemployment and reduced government spending. …

unemployment and active labor market programs (ALMPs), utilizing a reform that decreased dismissal costs for small firms only …. Using administrative data from Sweden, we find that less stringent EPL increased the share of workers hired from … unemployment and some ALMPs. Our results suggest that there was less screening of new hires after the reform, and that …

This paper presents a detailed analysis of voters‟ responses to municipality and regional-level unemployment and …. The preferred specification suggests that a reduction in regional unemployment by one percentage point is associated with … regional level, is substantial in size, but statistically insignificant. At the municipality level, unemployment has a smaller …

This paper is the first to estimate the effects of minimum wages on the unemployment of refugee immigrants. The … collectively agreed minimum wages raise both the incidence of unemployment and days in unemployment considerably for male refugees … in Sweden; different estimation methods and models yield robust elasticities in the 1.8-2.0 range. The effects for young …