Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job … experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of subsequent wages while no such effect could be found for women. These findings … unemployment duration was rather short, which may have prevented general capital from depreciating. However, the presence of large …

of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant … emigration and its consequences for measures of assimilation. Large fractions of the immigrants leave the host country shortly … who leave. This creates the impression that immigrants are much more likely to emigrate than political ones. …

of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant … emigration and its consequences for measures of assimilation. Large fractions of the immigrants leave the host country shortly … who leave. This creates the impression that immigrants are much more likely to emigrate than political ones. …

In June 1995, the Swedish parliament decided to cut the replacement rate in unemployment insurance from 80 percent to …

employment status affects both the level and the persistence of unemployment and numerically that these effects are substantial … exp lain the high and persistent European unemployment. …

and "services" are produced both in the market and within the households. We use the model to examine how unemployment and …

Conventional models of equilibrium unemployment typically imply that proportional taxes on labor earnings are neutral … with respect to unemployment as long as the tax does not affect the replacement rate provided by unemployment insurance, i ….e., unemployment benefits relative to after-tax earnings. When home production is an option, the conventional results may no longer …

This paper studies effects of unemployment and labour market programmes on real wages in the Czech and Slovak Republics … using district paneldata for the period 1992-1998. Clear wage exists in both countries. The estimated unemployment …

Swedish unemployment was very low up to the early 1990s when it rose rapidly. Theoretically, decentralisation of wage …