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The Rise and Fall of Swedish Unemployment
Holmlund, Bertil - 2003
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 years but exhibited a marked fall from 1997 and...
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How physicians affect patients' employment outcomes through deciding on sick leave durations
Ahammer, Alexander - 2016
I analyze how general practitioners (GPs) indirectly affect their patients' employment outcomes by deciding on the … only certified because a worker's GP has a high propensity to certify sick leaves - decreases employment probabilities …: Whenever medically justifiable, it may be beneficial to certify shorter sick leaves in order to protect employment status of …
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Waiting for jobs
Kapoor, Radhicka - 2017
Employment data in India is far from adequate if policy responses have to be more effective and timely. Most employment … gaps and revamp the existing employment data systems, the government has put in place a Task Force. However, new employment … data is unlikely to be available until the latter half of next year. Understanding and analyzing employment trends in the …
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Unemployment in the European Union: a dynamic reappraisal
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: a) the NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which unemployment movements are attributed largely to changes in the long-run equilibrium unemployment rate and (b) the chain-reaction perspective, in which unemployment movements are...
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Employment, Mobility, and Active Labor Market Programs
Fredriksson, Peter; Johansson, Per - 2003
Using a unique micro panel data set we investigate whether active labor market programs improve employment prospects …
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Long term effects of public policy for displaced workers in Sweden - shipyard workers in the West and miners in the North
Ohlsson, Henry; Storrie, Donald - 2007
shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …
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Treatment versus regime effects of carrots and sticks
Arni, Patrick; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lalive, Rafael - 2017
Public Employment Service (PES) agencies and caseworkers (CW) often have substantial leeway in the design and …) programs. We apply this to contrast regime and treatment effects on unemployment durations, employment, and postunemployment …
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Employment, mobility, and active labor market programs
Fredriksson, Peter; Johansson, Per - 2003
Using a unique micro panel data set we investigate whether active labor market programs improve employment prospects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321057
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Unemployment invariance
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis", according to which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity and the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous growth...
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Macroeconomic transformation of capitalism - How to achieve politically determined growth rates?
Herr, Hansjörg - 2021
An economy with a stable medium-term growth rate of zero - or any other politically determined growth rate - needs new regulations and institutions to realise this target. Such an economy would look very different compared with the existing type of capitalism we have today in the Global North....
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