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Swedish youth labour market policies revisited
Forslund, Anders; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2006
different policy regimes currently in use. Results suggest that youth policies are more effective than the policies covering … relative efficiency of youth programmes and general adult programmes which are available also for the young. The results … indicate that youth programmes are significantly less effective than adult oriented programmes. Overall, the evidence thus …
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The Internal and External Effects of Offshoring on Job Security
El-Sahli, Zouheir; Gullstrand, Joakim; Olofsdotter, Karin - 2017
In this paper, we investigate the effects of offshoring on workers' job security using matched employer-employee data from Sweden. For our observed period (1997-2011), while the share of firms engaged in offshoring fell during the period from around 25% to 22%, offshoring per worker within...
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The matching method for treatment evaluation with selective participation and ineligibles
Costa Dias, Monica; Ichimura, Hidehiko; van den Berg, … - 2008
, we exploit the age eligibility restriction in the Swedish Youth Practice subsidized work program for young unemployed …
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When strong ties are strong: Networks and youth labor market entry
Kramarz, Francis; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2011
The conditions under which young workers find their first real post-graduation jobs are both very important for the young's future careers and insufficiently known given their public policy implications. To study these conditions, and in particular the role played by networks, we use a Swedish...
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What active labor market policy works in a recession?
Forslund, Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Vikström, Johan - 2011
This paper discusses the case for expanding active labor market policy in recession. We find that there is reasonable case for relying more heavily on certain kinds of programs. The argument is tied to the varying size of the lock-in effect in boom and recession. If programs with relatively...
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Threat effects of monitoring and unemployment insurance sanctions: Evidence from two reforms
Lombardi, Stefano - 2019
This paper studies threat effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit sanctions on job exit rates. Using a difference-in-differences design, I exploit two reforms of the Swedish UI system that made monitoring and sanctions considerably stricter at different points in time for different...
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Policies for young adults with reduced work capacity: Labour market impact in Sweden and Norway
Hall, Caroline King Barnard; Hardoy, Inés; Von Simson, … - 2022
The rising numbers of young people with disability pension concerns many advanced economies. We present results from a comparative analysis of Sweden and Norway, two countries which are very similar in many respects, but differ regarding the policy mix to enhance the employability of the work...
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Active labor market policies
Crépon, Bruno; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2016
Active labor market policies are massively used with the objective being to improve labor market outcomes of individuals out of work. Many observational evaluation studies have been published. In this review, we critically assess policy effectiveness. We emphasize insights from recent randomized...
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Controlling the danger of false discoveries in estimating multiple treatment effects
Wunderli, Dan - 2012
I expose the risk of false discoveries in the context of multiple treatment effects. A false discovery is a nonexistent effect that is falsely labeled as statistically significant by its individual t-value. Labeling nonexistent effects as statistically significant has wide-ranging academic and...
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How long and how much? Learning about the design of wage subsidies from policy discontinuities
Sjögren, Anna; Vikström, Johan - 2013
Employment and wage subsidies are used to combat long-term unemployment, yet there is little research to guide the design of such programs. Discontinuities in the design and implementation of wage subsidies under the Swedish New Start Jobs-policy allow us to study effects of both subsidy rate...
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