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 …

) 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 …