Similar Search Results

Employment, Mobility, and Active Labor Market Programs

Fredriksson, Peter; Johansson, Per - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2003

Using a unique micro panel data set we investigate whether active labor market programs improve employment prospects …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190476

Improving Incentives in Unemployment Insurance: A Review of Recent Research

Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2003

This paper provides a review of the recent literature on how incentives in unemployment insurance (UI) can be improved. We are particularly concerned with three instruments, viz. the duration of benefit payments (or more generally the time sequencing of benefits), monitoring in conjunction with...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419180

Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Monitoring and Sanctions

Boone, Jan; Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil; van … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2001

This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort among the unemployed is not perfectly observable. We examine to what extent the optimal policy involves monitoring of search effort and benefit sanctions if observed search is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196932

Vacancy Referrals, Job Search, and the Duration of Unemployment: A Randomized Experiment

Engström, Per; Hesselius, Patrik; Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2009

One goal of the public employment service is to facilitate matching between unemployed job seekers and job vacancies …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642513

Optimal Unemployment Insurance Design:Time Limits, Monitoring, or Workfare?

Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2003

This paper analyses crucial design features of unemployment insurance (UI) policies. We examine three different means of improving the efficiency of UI: the duration of benefit payments, monitoring in conjunction with sanctions, and workfare. To that end we develop a quantitative model of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644587

Long term effects of public policy for displaced workers in Sweden – shipyard workers in the West and miners in the North

Ohlsson, Henry; Storrie, Donald - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007

shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644530

On mandatory activation of welfare receivers

Dahlberg, Matz; Johansson, Kajsa; Mörk, Eva - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2008

participation, employment and disposable income. In contrast to earlier studies we are able to capture both entry and exit effects … mandatory activation of welfare receivers reduce overall welfare participation and increases employment. We also find that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644579

The Swedish Youth Labor Market in Boom and Depression

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

of labor market programs on youth employment. We find that the slump in the 1990s has been associated with dramatic … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … for labor by skill attributable to technological innovation. The employment crisis has been met by an unprecedented …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419214

The Rise and Fall of Swedish Unemployment

Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2003

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several years but exhibited a marked fall from 1997 and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196930

How Local are Local Governments? Heterogeneous Effects of Intergovernmental Grants

Nilsson, Heléne L. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2009

While the literature on how intergovernmental grants affect the budget of receiving jurisdictions is numerous, the very few studies that explicitly deal with likely endogeneity problems focus on grants targeted towards specific sectors or to specific type of recipients. The results from these...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509429