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The Swedish Youth Labor Market in Boom and Depression

Edin, Per-Anders; Forslund, Anders; Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998

This paper is concerned with the labor market experience of Swedish youths during the 1980s and the 1990s. The first objective is to portray early economic attainment among young Swedes. The second objective of the paper is to examine the impact of labor market programs on youth employment. We...

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Is the persistent gender gap in income and wages due to unequal family responsibilities?

Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per; Lindahl, Erica - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013

, the male-female gender gaps in income and wages have increased with 35 and 10 percentage points, respectively. In line … with a collective labor supply model, the mag- nitude of these eects depends on relative incomes or wages within the family. …

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Survey Evidence on Wage Rigidity and Unemployment: Sweden in the 1990s.

Agell, J.; Lundborg, P. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999

contrary, we conclude that - because of severe downward nominal wage rigidity - real wages have become more rigid during Sweden …

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Unemployment Insurance in Theory and Practice.

Holmlund, B. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1997

A Hallmark of modern labor conomics is the close interplay between the development of theory, data sources and econometric testing. The evolution of the economic analysis of unemployment insurance provides a good illustration. New Theoretical approaches, in particular job-search theory; have...

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