mix to enhance the employability of the work disabled. Using rich longitudinal data, we follow unemployed young adults …. We follow these individuals up to four years after the start of unemployment. Our results indicate that, in spite of …. Having participated in workplace related programmes about doubles the likelihood of entering regular employment or education …

small effects of typical shocks to the number of unemployed. The employment effects are smaller in recessions than in booms …. Estimation of an employment equation using panel data for Swedish firms suggests that neither the number of unemployed nor the …According to search and matching theory, a greater availability of unemployed workers should make it easier for a firm …

We study the anatomy of responses to a major activation programme targeted at unemployed youth, introduced in Sweden in …

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante threat of sanctions. Based on a large inflow sample into unemployment … unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We estimate multispell …

We analyze unique data on three sources of information on the probability of re-employment within 6 months (RE6), for … the same individuals sampled from the inflow into unemployment. First, they were asked for their perceived probability of …

becoming unemployed, the duration of unemployment, or income. However, the results indicate that the program has a positive …Employment Security Agreements, which are elements of Swedish collective agreements, offer a unique opportunity to …, I investigate the effects of the individual counseling and job search assistance provided through the Employment …

the effect of a non-distortionary lump-sum severance grant on unemployment durations. In this study, I evaluate the … effects on unemployment duration and subsequent job quality of a lump-sum severance grant provided to displaced workers, by …The well-known positive relationship between the unemployment benefit level and unemployment duration can be separated …

approach that exploits regional variation in unemployment and compares babies born to the same parents so as to deal with … unemployment rate during pregnancy reduces the probability of having a birth weight less than 1,500 grams or of dying within 28 … parents’ own employment status. Instead, the results suggest a pathway through air pollution. …

take up by about 2.5 weeks, overall duration in unemployment and the probability of employment is largely unaffected …Previous studies estimating the effect of generosity of unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment duration has found … that as job seekers approach benefit exhaustion the probability of leaving unemployment increases sharply. Such "spikes" in …