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The Swedish youth labor market in boom and depression

Edin, Per-Anders; Forslund, Anders; Holmlund, Bertil - 1998 - This version: 3 February 1998

increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …

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Job polarization and task-biased technological change : Sweden, 1975 - 2005

Adermon, Adrian; Gustavsson, Magnus - 2011

This paper investigates the connection between the Swedish wage profile of net job creation and Autor, Levy, and Murnane's (2003) proposed substitutability between routine tasks and technology. We first show that between 1975 and 2005, Sweden exhibited a pattern of job polarization with...

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Ranking of job applicants, on-the-job search, and persistent unemployment

Eriksson, Stefan; Gottfries, Nils - 2003 - Final version

employment status affects both the level and the persistence of unemployment and numerically that these effects are substantial … to explain the high and persistent European unemployment. …

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Product market imperfections and employment dynamics

Carlsson, Mikael; Eriksson, Stefan; Gottfries, Nils - 2011 - rev.

How important is imperfect competition in the product market for employment dynamics? To investigate this, we formulate a theoretical model of employment adjustment with imperfect competition in the product market, search frictions, and convex adjustment costs. From this model, we derive a...

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Endogenous separations, wage rigidities and employment volatility

Carlsson, Mikael; Westermark, Andreas - 2016

are flexible, the standard deviation of unemployment in a model with rigid wages for incumbent workers (only) matches the …

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Unemployment, labour market programmes and wage determination : evidence from the Czech and Slovak republics

Huitfeldt, Henrik - 2001

This paper studies effects of unemployment and labour market programmes on real wages in the Czech and Slovak Republics … unemployment elasticity of pay is, however, higher in the Slovak Republic, than in the Czech Republic. The wage subsidy and the …

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Testing theories of job creation : does supply create its own demand?

Carlsson, Mikael (contributor); Eriksson, Stefan (contributor) - 2006

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