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Sweden : from macroeconomic failure to macroeconomic success
Calmfors, Lars - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009521517
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The impact of upper-secondary voucher school attendance on student achievement : Swedish evidence using external and internal evaluations
Tyrefors, Björn; Vlachos, Jonas - 2016
Sweden has a school voucher system with universal coverage and full acceptance of corporate providers. Using a value …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509602
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The impact of upper-secondary voucher school attendance on student achievement : Swedish evidence using external and internal evaluations
Tyrefors, Björn; Vlachos, Jonas - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526222
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Does active labour market policy work? : lessons from the Swedish experiences
Calmfors, Lars; Forslund, Anders; Hemström, Maria - 2002
Sweden. On the whole, ALMPs have probably reduced open unemployment, but also reduced regular employment. The overall policy … conclusion is that ALMPs of the scale used in Sweden in the 1990s are not an efficient means of employment policy. To be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409177
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Education and criminal behavior : insights from an expansion of upper secondary school
Åslund, Olof; Grönqvist, Hans; Hall, Caroline King Barnard - 2015
We study the impact on criminal activity from a large scale Swedish reform of vocational upper secondary education, extending programs from two to three years and adding more general theoretical content. The reform directly concerns age groups where criminal activity is high and students who are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346582
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Education and criminal behavior : insights from an expansion of upper secondary school
Åslund, Olof; Grönqvist, Hans; Hall, Caroline King Barnard - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391746
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Does active labour market policy work? : lessons from the Swedish experiences
Calmfors, Lars; Forslund, Anders; Hemström, Maria - 2002
)employment and surveys the empirical studies of the effects of ALMPs in Sweden. The main conclusions are (i) there is hardly any … Sweden in the 1990s are not an efficient means of employment policy. To be effective, ALMPs should be used on a smaller scale …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011575137
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The Swedish macroeconomic policy framework
Calmfors, Lars - 2015
The paper describes the monetary and fiscal policy frameworks in Sweden and analyses how they were established as well … as current challenges. Sweden provides a good example of how deep economic crisis, in interaction with independent … frameworks. It remains to be seen whether it will be possible in Sweden to adapt the monetary and fiscal frameworks to changed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011302486
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Firms and skills : the evolution of worker sorting
Håkanson, Christina; Lindqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2015
We document a significant increase in the sorting of workers by cognitive and non-cognitive skills across Swedish firms between 1986 and 2008. The weight of the evidence suggests that the increase in sorting is due to stronger complementarities between worker skills and technology. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010530520
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Firms and skills : the evolution of worker sorting
Håkanson, Christina; Lindqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2015
We document a significant increase in the sorting of workers by cognitive and non-cognitive skills across Swedish firms between 1986 and 2008. The weight of the evidence suggests that the increase in sorting is due to stronger complementarities between worker skills and technology. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532546