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 …