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Hensvik, Lena; Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Rathelot, Roland - 2021

This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and job ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, new vacancy postings drop by 40%, similar to the US. Second, job seekers respond by searching less intensively, to the...

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What are the determinants of hiring? : the role of demand and supply factors

Eriksson, Stefan; Stadin, Karolina - 2015

In this paper, we study the relative importance of demand and supply factors for hiring. We use a search-matching model with imperfect competition in the product market to derive an equation for total hiring in a local labor market and estimate it on Swedish panel data. If product markets are...

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No activation without reconciliation? : the interplay between ALMP and ECEC in relation to women's employment, unemployment and inactivity in 30 OECD countries, 1985-2018

Nieuwenhuis, Rense - 2022

's employment rates, women's unemployment and inactivity rates in 30 OECD countries from 1985 to 2018. The article theorizes about … with low female unemployment rates, whereas ECEC also is associated with lower inactivity rates for women. There was … highest rates of women's employment, and the lowest rates of unemployment and inactivity, are found in countries with large …

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The heterogeneous earnings impact of job loss across workers, establishments, and markets

Athey, Susan; Simon, Lisa; Nordström Skans, Oskar; … - 2024

Using generalized random forests and rich Swedish administrative data, we show that the earnings effects of job displacement due to establishment closures are highly heterogeneous. We find as much heterogeneity within as across closing establishments, and within as across worker types defined by...

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Firms' employment dynamics and the state of the labor market

Stadin, Karolina - 2015

According to search and matching theory, a greater availability of unemployed workers should make it easier for a firm to fill a vacancy but more vacancies at other firms should make recruitment more difficult. But what can we say about the expected magnitudes of these effects on firms’...

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Earnings losses and the role of the welfare state during the COVID-19 pandemic : evidence from Sweden

Adermon, Adrian; Laun, Lisa; Lind, Patrik; Olsson, Martin; … - 2022

Many governments introduced temporary adjustments to counter the economic and health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. We study the importance of already existing government transfers and pandemic measures to mitigate individual income losses during the pandemic in Sweden using a...

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The skill-specific impact of past and projected occupational decline

Hensvik, Lena; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2019

Using very detailed register data on cognitive abilities and productive personality traits for nearly all Swedish males at age 18, we show that employment in the recent past has shifted towards skill-intensive occupations. Employment growth is monotonically skill biased in relation to this set...

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Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2020

We study the short, medium, and long run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program, which had paid benefits for up to two years, was replaced by an earnings related transfer, which paid...

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The effect of age-targeted tax credits on retirement behavior

Laun, Lisa - 2012

This paper analyzes the effect of two age-targeted policy initiatives to delay retirement that were simultaneously implemented in Sweden in 2007: an earned income tax credit and a payroll tax credit. Both policies were targeted at workers aged 65 or above at the beginning of the tax year. The...

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Self-employment and the local business cycle

Svaleryd, Helena - 2013

opportunities open up and encourage the set-up of new firms. In downturns, self-employment may be a way to avoid unemployment. The …

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