Swedish labor market has adopted well to technological change, as it exhibits stable employment rates and steady wage growth …

of the program, on take-up of WeGebAU and other training,and on subsequent employment. The bRochure more than doubles …

refugees. The program has immediate and substantial short-run effects on employment, corresponding to around 15 percentage …-run employment level of about 50 percent. We show that the program boosts language skills in the short run, and that this channel … explains an increasing share of the effect on employment. Using survey data, we finally measure if the program affects …

To evaluate search effort monitoring of unemployed workers, it is important to take account of post-unemployment wages … and job-to-job mobility. We structurally estimate a job search model with endogenous job search effort by the unemployed … of monitoring is randomized. They include registers of post-unemployment outcomes like wages and job mobility, and survey …

unemployment to employment using detailed Danish event history data obtained from administrative registers. We find large positive …We investigate the effects of meetings between the unemployed and their case workers on the transition rate from …

parental unemployment. We find that children with unemployed parents are 17 percent more likely to be hospitalized than other …We analyze to what extent health outcomes of Swedish children are worse among children whose parents become unemployed … parental unemployment on child health. …

Training programs for the unemployed typically involve teaching a specific skill to ease the transition into employment …. However, in 1997, the Swedish unemployed could choose general/theoretical training through enrollment in one year of full …