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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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Does active labour market policy work? : lessons from the Swedish experiences

Calmfors, Lars; Forslund, Anders; Hemström, Maria - 2002

) have been used as a means to fight high unemployment. This paper discusses the mechanisms through which ALMPs affect (un)employment … open unemployment, but also reduced regular employment. The overall policy conclusion is that ALMPs of the scale used in …. There should be a greater emphasis on holding down long-term unemployment in general and a smaller emphasis on youth …

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Labour supply incentives, income support systems and taxes in Sweden

Forslund, Anders - 2009

Comparing Sweden to other EU countries, labour force participation rates of older individuals and females are high. These facts are consistent with the idea that institutional design matters: access to child care, paid parental leave, and a tax system with individual rather than household income...

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Income support systems, labour supply incentives and employment : some cross-country evidence

Forslund, Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - 2009

This paper summarizes a set of expert reports commissioned by the IFAU. The expert reports cover Estonia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. These countries represent range of welfare states, both in terms of scope and design. And in each country there are...

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What is a good job?

Eichhorst, Werner; Wozny, Florian; Mähönen, Erno - 2015

After the apparent rise of so‐called atypical and 'precarious' jobs, the quality of employment has become of interest because such employment relationships are often related to objectively or subjectively worse working conditions. In this paper we look in detail into what is known about job...

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Are there austerity‐related policy changes in Germany?

Eichhorst, Werner; Hassel, Anke - 2015

This paper assesses the existence and the extent of austerity‐oriented policies in Germany in the aftermath of the 2008‐9 recession. In contrast to the intensive phase of labour market and welfare state reforms in the early 2000s aimed at 'welfare readjustment', we do not see austerity...

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Youth unemployment in Mediterranean countries

Eichhorst, Werner; Neder, Franziska - 2014

In all Mediterranean countries youth unemployment has reached alarming record levels. This paper analyses the current … the situation of young people, but youth unemployment is mostly structural. To overcome this crisis the overall …

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Not so standard anymore? : employment duality in Germany

Eichhorst, Werner; Tobsch, Verena - 2014

This paper gives an overview of the transformation of the German labour market since the mid-1990s with a special focus on the changing patterns of labour market segmentation or "dualization" of employment in Germany. While labour market duality in Germany can partially be attributed to labour...

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Welfare and employment : a European dilemma?

Eichhorst, Werner (contributor); … - 2008

The majority of the Member States of the European Union have undertaken remarkably comprehensive welfare and labor market reforms in the years since the 1990s. Many of these reforms, however, have not followed the conventional retrenchment and deregulation recipes, but rather took a liking to...

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Promoting youth employment in Europe : evidence-based policy lessons

Eichhorst, Werner; Rinne, Ulf - 2016

Youth unemployment has become a severe economic and societal problem in many European countries. Based on the existing …

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