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Job Polarization and Task-Biased Technological Change: Sweden, 1975–2005

Adermon, Adrian; Gustavsson, Magnus - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

This paper investigates the connection between the Swedish wage profile of net job creation and Autor, Levy, and Murnane’s (2003) proposed substitutability between routine tasks and technology. We first show that between 1975 and 2005, Sweden exhibited a pattern of job polarization with...

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Labor-Force Participation Rates and the Informational Value of Unemployment Rates: Evidence from Disaggregated US Data

Gustavsson, Magnus; Österholm, Pär - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010

The informational value of the aggregate US unemployment rate has recently been questioned because of a unit root in … the labor-force participation rate; the lack of mean reversion implies that long-run changes in unemployment rates are … highly unlikely to reflect long-run changes in joblessness. This paper shows that this critique also extends to unemployment …

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The Ins and Outs of Unemployment in a Two-Tier Labor Market

Silva, José I.; Vázquez-Grenno, Javier - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012

unconditional and conditional correlations. Finally, we compute the contribution of the dierent transitions to unemployment rate … volatility. Our over- all conclusion points out that the employment duality is the key to understand the unemployment volatility …

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Is Early Retirement Encouraged by the Employer? Labor-Demand Effects of Age-Related Collective Fees

Hallberg, Daniel - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

In Sweden, employers pay non-wage costs for their workforce in the form of legislated employment tax and collective fees. For parts of the workforce, the collective fees are progressive with respect to the employee’s age and wage. The objective of this paper is to examine how non-wage costs...

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Income support systems, labour supply incentives and employment – some cross-country evidence

Anders, Forslund; Fredriksson, Peter - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2009

This paper summarizes a set of expert reports commissioned by the IFAU. The expert reports cover Estonia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. These countries represent range of welfare states, both in terms of scope and design. And in each country there are...

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Paid parental leave to immigrants: An obstacle to labor market entrance?

Vikman, Ulrika - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013

they came to Sweden. This reduction in the labor force participation is to some extent driven by unemployment since the …

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Evaluation of the Swedish earned income tax credit

Edmark, Karin; Liang, Che-Yuan; Mörk, Eva; Selin, Håkan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012

unemployment to, at least, part-time work. In this paper we try to analyze the extensive margin labor supply effects of the Swedish …

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Self-employment and the local business cycle

Svaleryd, Helena - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 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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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

We compare the income and wage trajectories of women in rela- tion to their male partners before and after parenthood. Focusing on the within-couple gap allows us to control for both observed and unobserved attributes of the spouse and to estimate both short- and long-term eects of entering...

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Naturalizations and the economic and social integration of immigrants

Engdahl, Mattias - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2014

I study the effects of naturalizations on labor market outcomes and family formation. The results show that naturalizations are associated with improving economic outcomes for immigrants from outside the OECD. The strength of the correlation varies depending on the country group and gender. A...

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