By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …

significantly with productivity-enhancing technical change. This was, however, the case only in households where small children … with the family eventually redefined the concept of small children and so shifted the position of homemaker from being a …

We study the intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities between parents and sons using … parents' cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. …

objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …

's tax-based social transfers have not harmed either employment or GDP. Even unemployment benefits do not have robustly … employment effects, but through the net human-capital cost of protecting senior male workers at the expense of women and youth …

shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …

unemployment. Usinglongitudinal micro data from the period between 1992 and 1999, it also studies alternative measures of … working time from fulltime to part-time employment. …

such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …