US experience, older workers in Sweden do not benefit from large youth cohorts. Further results show that large numbers …

Sweden has experienced a substantial increase in temporary work over the 1990s, with most of the rise occurring during … a severe macroeconomic recession with mass unemployment. By the early 1990s, workers on fixed-term contracts accounted … is a major factor behind the rise in temporary work in Sweden. Adverse macroeconomic conditions make firms more prone to …

In Sweden, as in many other countries, marginal groups tend to be overrepresented in non-standard employment. A … considerably smaller in Sweden, both for natives and foreign born, than those that have been found for other countries. This may be … due to a highly compressed wage structure and extensive coverage of collective bargaining in Sweden. On the whole, the …

unemployment among job-seekers. Using exact matching on labour market history and personal characteristics we find positive effects … effect of the length is found on unemployment, employment or wages. Overall, the results suggest that receiving a fixed term … contract reduces the risk of future unemployment, and that a longer contract increases the position within the workplace but …