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The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. In the Swedish context this question is of great policy relevance due to the high levels of refugee migration and inflow of tied movers. Using Swedish register data...
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Temporary agency employment has grown rapidly in Sweden as in many other countries. The sector was deregulated in the …
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comparison group. Our data comes from registers held by Statistics Sweden and the Public Employment Service and covers all …
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between children and female self-employment in a country with family friendly policies and a generous welfare system: Sweden … much, time on market work than wage-earning women. This raises doubts about whether women in Sweden chose self …
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Using unique register data for Sweden we can match self-employed persons to their employees. We analyze the national …. We find that the probability for immigrants to hire native workers increases with time spent in Sweden. This result …
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group. Our data comes from registers held by Statistics Sweden and covers all immigrants. The results suggest positive and …
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This paper formulates a simple model of female labor force decisions which embeds an in-work benefit reform and explicitly allows for announcement and implementation effects. We explore several mechanisms through which women can respond to the announcement of a reform that increases in-work...
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This paper examines the effects of the Working Families' Tax Credit (WFTC) on couples in Britain. We develop a simple model of household decisions which explicitly accounts for the role played by the tax and benefit system. Its main implications are then tested using panel data from the British...
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This paper uses British panel data to investigate single women's labour supply changes in response to three tax and benefit policy reforms that occurred in the 1990s. These reforms changed individuals' work incentives and we use them to identify changes in labour supply. We find evidence of...
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In many countries unemployed people are helped to become self-employed. Self-employment, however, does not necessarily lead to success. Many leave self-employment after a short period and the economic outcome varies greatly. It is important to learn more about the economic outcome for unemployed...
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