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Does providing childcare to unemployed affect unemployment duration?
Vikman, Ulrika - 2010
childcare is available. To investigate this, I use the heterogeneity among Swedish municipalities before the implementation of a … 2001 Swedish childcare reform making it mandatory for municipalities to offer childcare to unemployed parents for at least …. The results indicate a positive effect on the probability of leaving unemployment for mothers when childcare is available …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321437
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Does providing childcare to unemployed affect unemployment duration?
Vikman, Ulrika - 2010
childcare is available. To investigate this, I use the heterogeneity among Swedish municipalities before the implementation of a … 2001 Swedish childcare reform making it mandatory for municipalities to offer child-care to unemployed parents for at least …. The results indicate a positive effect on the probability of leaving unemployment for mothers when childcare is available …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003971375
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Does providing childcare to unemployed affect unemployment duration?
Vikman, Ulrika - 2010
childcare is available. To investigate this, I use the heterogeneity among Swedish municipalities before the implementation of a … 2001 Swedish childcare reform making it mandatory for municipalities to offer childcare to unemployed parents for at least …. The results indicate a positive effect on the probability of leaving unemployment for mothers when childcare is available …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003971405
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Do Benefit Hikes Damage Job Finding? Evidence from Swedish Unemployment Insurance Reforms
Bennmarker, Helge; Carling, Kenneth; Holmlund, Bertil - 2005
In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was the introduction of a two-tiered benefit structure for some unemployed individuals. This system involved supplementary compensation during the first 20 weeks of unemployment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321566
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Do benefit hikes damage job finding? Evidence from Swedish unemployment insurance reforms
Bennmarker, Helge; Carling, Kenneth; Holmlund, Bertil - 2005
In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was the introduction of a two-tiered benefit structure for some unemployed individuals. This system involved supplementary compensation during the first 20 weeks of unemployment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317960
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Reservation wages, expected wages and the duration of unemployment: evidence from British panel data
Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - 2009
In this paper we analyse the role of wage expectations in an empirical model of incomplete spells of unemployment and reservation wages. To be specific, we model the duration of unemployment, reservation wages and expected wages simultaneously for a sample of individuals who are not in work,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269023
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Essential work and emergency childcare : identifying gender differences in COVID-19 effects on labour demand and supply
Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Kalb, Guyonne - 2020
data on all Dutch employees up to 30 June 2020, focusing on the national lockdown and the emergency childcare for essential … supply effects, suggesting emergency childcare was not sufficient for this group. However, overall, labour demand effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012321818
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Essential work and emergency childcare: identifying gender differences in COVID-19 effects on labour demand and supply
Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Kalb, Guyonne - 2020
data on all Dutch employees up to 30 June 2020, focussing on the national lockdown and the emergency childcare for … large negative labour supply effects, suggesting emergency childcare was not sufficient for this group. However, overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306367
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The Duration of Immigrants? Unemployment Spells: Evidence from Sweden
Hansen, Jörgen - 2000
Using a proportional hazard model with multiple exits, this paper analyzes whether immigrants' unemployment spells differ from natives', and if so, how the difference vary with time spent in Sweden and across immigrant cohorts. A unique data set taken from the Swedish unemployment registers is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262362
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Do interactions between unemployment insurance and sickness insurance affect transitions to employment?
Hall, Caroline - 2008
Previous research suggests that there are substantial interactions between the unemployment insurance (UI) and the sickness insurance (SI) in Sweden. Moral hazard arises in the interplay between these two social insurance systems, since by reporting sick an unemployed person can postpone the UI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273963