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 … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …

. We then estimate our sufficient statistics using administrative data on unemployment, income and wealth in Sweden. First … unemployment spell. We derive simple sufficient-statistics formulae capturing the insurance value and incentive costs of … unemployment benefits paid at different times during the unemployment spell. Our general approach allows to revisit and evaluate in …

introducing non-search activity requirements for unemployment benefit recipients. The Mutual Obligations Initiative (MOI) required … people aged 18-34 receiving unemployment benefits to undertake a range of non-search activities (e.g., volunteering, training … a lower incidence of unemployment benefit receipt in comparison to those whose fathers were not. More detailed …

data are based on a number of matched longitudinal administrative data sets covering the full population of Sweden. For the …

We exploit the exceptional variation in municipality-level unemployment and spending on labor market programs in Sweden … during the 1990s to identify the impact of unemployment and programs on crime. We identify a statistically significant effect … of unemployment on the incidence of overall crime, burglary, auto-theft and drug possession. A calculation suggests that …

) have been used as a means to fight high unemployment. This paper discusses the mechanisms through which ALMPs affect (un)employment … and surveys the empirical studies of the effects of ALMPs in Sweden. The main conclusions are (i) there is hardly any … open unemployment, but also reduced regular employment. The overall policy conclusion is that ALMPs of the scale used in …