Juranek, Steffen; Paetzold, Jörg; Winner, Hannes; … - 2020
’), Sweden decided for much lighter restrictions. Empirically, we use novel administrative data on weekly new unemployment and … furlough spells from all 56 regions of the Nordic countries to compare the labor market outcomes of Sweden with the ones of its … neighbors. Our evidence suggests that the labor markets of all countries were severely hit by the pandemic, although Sweden …