The economic crisis in the early 1990s brought about a dramatic increase in unemployment and a similar decrease in … labor force participation. Unemployment declined afterwards, but stabilized at around 6-7% - more than twice as high as … before the crisis. Today, the unemployment rate is lower than the EU average, though Sweden no longer stands out in this …

In Sweden, as in many other countries, marginal groups tend to be overrepresented in non-standard employment. A … decomposition of the employment rate of full-time workers on permanent contracts reveals that non-standard employment contributes to … employment figures alone. Our econometric analysis shows that the negative wage premia associated with fixed-term employment are …

This paper deals with the heterogeneous employment outcome at the plant level in Swedish manufacturing over the period … movement. Little of the observed heterogeneity in the plant-level employment outcome can be explained by easily observable …. Furthermore, the role for idiosyncrasies in explaining the plant-level employment outcome becomes increasingly important in times …

differences is that Southern European workers are less likely to find employment following displacement. Loss of employer …