We show how intergenerational mobility has evolved over time in Sweden and the United States since 1985, focusing on … substantially over recent decades in both Sweden and the US, while the more predominantly studied father-son measures remained … in the US relative to Sweden. We develop a model to quantify the relative roles of parent human capital, employment, and …

On the basis of aggregate data for the early nineties, we analyse the determinants of unemployment duration for laid …-off male workers in Wallonia (Belgium). Our results demonstrate that if ranking in recruitment occurs, the standard Mixed …

article sheds light on this issue by ex-ploring the consequences of postponing access to an old-age unemployment program from … age 58 to 60. The program provides laid-off workers with a combination of unemployment benefits and a monthly supplement … this reform on workers' employment and various social security benefits (i.e. unemployment, disability, early retirement …

. Previous studies have illustrated its high effectiveness to help participants escaping unemployment and improving their labor … start-ups out of unemployment with regular business founders, with respect to not only personal characteristics but also …

at unemployment with special emphasis on the schemes complementing compensation from the unemployment insurance scheme … prolonged periods of unemployment. Of special interest is that those complementing systems differ between different sectors of …

.We then estimate our sufficient statistics using administrative data on unemployment, income and wealth in Sweden. First, we … unemployment spell. We derive simple sufficient-statistics formulae capturing the insurance value and incentive costs of … unemployment benefits paid at different times during the unemployment spell. Our general approach allows to revisit and evaluate in …

fundamental role in shaping unemployment movements. This role has generally been examined by considering indirect transmission … single-equation unemployment rate models. Here we advocate a different approach. We directly estimate the effects of capital … stock in the labour market by applying the chain reaction theory of unemployment, and we find that capital stock is a major …

The vocational employment training program is the most ambitious and expensive training program in Sweden and a … cornerstone of labor market policy. We analyze causal effects on the individual transition rate from unemployment to employment by …-parametric identification. The data cover the population and include multiple unemployment spells for many individuals. The results indicate a …