price and wage rigidities to study four countries (the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, and Germany) during the financial crisis and … factors were also important in the U.K., but less so in Sweden and Germany. Reduced matching efficiency was considerably less … important in the U.K. and Sweden than in the U.S., but matching efficiency improved in Germany, helping to keep unemployment low …

Eurozone countries today) and two - Finland and Sweden - after floating the currency.All four episodes were associated with an … occurred because the sterling coincidentally appreciated. In Finland and Sweden the currency experienced an extremely large …

Sweden and analyzes the relation between the two. We use three different measures of population health: (1) the mortality … Statistics Sweden's Survey on Living Conditions (ULF, 1975-2005); (3) the utilization of health care from the inpatient register …