This paper studies the earnings and employment consequences of involuntary job loss in Sweden during the crisis years … that experienced the largest number of job losses. While public service employment traditionally has been perceived as … from downsizing but most went on unaffected at least considering earnings and employment. From a policy perspective this …

on firms' employment behaviour. Seniority rules exist in several countries and, like Sweden, most European countries have … a more lenient employment protection for firms below a certain size. Despite the fact that small firms represent a large … share of all firms and stand for a substantial share of total employment, there is limited knowledge of how such exemption …

layof fs fully recover. Auxiliary analysis suggests that large layof fs increase exposure to non-employment, prolong …

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