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Using a large longitudinal data set, we study the effects of increased trade on earnings and mobility in the Swedish labor market in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Earnings respond significantly to changes in industry sales, whether generated by domestic market forces or international trade:...
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In this paper, we explore empirically the role of openness, technology and labour market rigidity in the determination of the effect of the exchange rate on employment in Portugal. We develop an index that allows us to measure labour market flexibility at the sector level. This index shows that...
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This paper deals with the heterogeneous employment outcome at the plant level in Swedish manufacturing over the period 1972-96. Non-negligible gross flows of jobs is found to be a pronounced feature in Swedish manufacturing, but as compared to results on U.S. data, the average pace of job...
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, targeting infectious diseases, in health and income improvements in Sweden throughout the twentieth century. It applies methods … and infectious disease mortality in southern Sweden. In the period after the nationwide introduction of sulpha antibiotics … in Sweden, the vast majority of the pneumonia decline was attributable to the antibiotics.Moreover, these studies find …
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People with disabilities, both in Sweden and elsewhere, are consistently found to face considerable difficulties on the …
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