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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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Having it all? : employment, earnings and children

Laun, Tobias; Wallenius, Johanna - 2017

Sweden boasts high fertility and high female employment. However, part-time employment is very prevalent. There is a notable gender gap in both wages and earnings, which widens substantially after women have children. In this paper we study the effect of family policies on female employment,...

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Health, longevity and pension reform

Laun, Tobias; Markussen, Simen; Vigtel, Trond Christian; … - 2018

In this paper, we study alternative pension reforms designed to achieve fiscal sustainability in the face of demographic change. We are particularly interested in the heterogeneous effects across demographic groups, as improvements in health and longevity have not been uniform across 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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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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