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The Swedish youth labor market in boom and depression

Edin, Per-Anders; Forslund, Anders; Holmlund, Bertil - 1998 - This version: 3 February 1998

increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …

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Ranking of job applicants, on-the-job search, and persistent unemployment

Eriksson, Stefan; Gottfries, Nils - 2003 - Final version

employment status affects both the level and the persistence of unemployment and numerically that these effects are substantial … to explain the high and persistent European unemployment. …

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Product market imperfections and employment dynamics

Carlsson, Mikael; Eriksson, Stefan; Gottfries, Nils - 2011 - rev.

How important is imperfect competition in the product market for employment dynamics? To investigate this, we formulate a theoretical model of employment adjustment with imperfect competition in the product market, search frictions, and convex adjustment costs. From this model, we derive a...

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Deep dynamics

Gottfries, Nils; Mickelsson, Glenn; Stadin, Karolina - 2018

Combining micro and macro data, we construct demand-side shocks, which we take to be exogenous for individual firms. We estimate a reduced-form model to describe how firms adjust their production, employment, capital stock, and inventories in response to such shocks. Then, we chose the...

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Optimal taxation in search equilibrium with home production

Engström, Per; Holmlund, Bertil; Kolm, Ann-Sofie - 2001

services are produced both in the market and within the households. We use the model to examine how unemployment and welfare … reduces unemployment whereas a tax cut on goods has no effect. A reform involving tax differentiation, with lower taxes on …

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Moral, the informal sector, and unemployment

Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - 2001

facilitates an analysis of how wage setting and unemployment is affected by punishment policies, which is ignored in the previous …

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Insider bargaining power, starting wages, and involuntary unemployment

Gottfries, Nils; Sjöström, Tomas - 1999

Recent analyses of wage bargaining has emphasized the distinction between insiders and outsiders, yet one typically assumes that insiders and recently hired outsiders are paid the same wage. We consider a model where the starting wage for outsiders may be lower than the insider wage, but...

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Wages, unemployment, and the underground economy

Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - 2001

both sectors, and (iii) reduces the unemployment rate. The effect of a higher audit rate is less clear. We find that a … ambiguous impact on unemployment and real wages. …

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Social interactions and unemployment

Åberg, Yvonne (contributor); Hedström, Peter (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Does tax evasion affect unemployment and educational choice?

Kolm, Ann-Sofie (contributor); Larsen, Birthe (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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