In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was … compensation during the first 20 weeks of unemployment. The 2002 reform retained the two-tiered benefit structure but involved also … unemployment to employment. We take advantage of the fact that the reforms had quasi-experimental features where the "treatments …

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …

The rise in European unemployment has inspired much new research on the causes and mechanisms of unemployment …, analogous to the interest devoted to unemployment in the 1930s. The new research has to a large extent focused on wage … for the existence and persistence of involuntary unemployment. This paper offers a survey of recent research on …

In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was … compensation during the first 20 weeks of unemployment. The 2002 reform retained the two-tiered benefit structure but involved also … unemployment to employment. We take advantage of the fact that the reforms had quasi-experimental features where the 'treatments …