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Temporary work in turbulent times : the Swedish experience

Holmlund, Bertil; Storrie, Donald W. - 2002

Sweden has experienced a substantial increase in temporary work over the 1990s, with most of the rise occurring during … is a major factor behind the rise in temporary work in Sweden. Adverse macroeconomic conditions make firms more prone to …

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Tax policy and employment : how does the Swedish system fare?

Pirttilä, Jukka; Selin, Hakan - 2011

elasticity of taxable income in Sweden. It also presents an overview of Swedish taxation of labour income, offers calculations on …

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Does active labour market policy work? : lessons from the Swedish experiences

Calmfors, Lars; Forslund, Anders; Hemström, Maria - 2002

Sweden. On the whole, ALMPs have probably reduced open unemployment, but also reduced regular employment. The overall policy … conclusion is that ALMPs of the scale used in Sweden in the 1990s are not an efficient means of employment policy. To be …

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Do benefit cuts boost job findings? : Swedish evidence from the 1990s

Carling, Kenneth; Holmlund, Bertil; Vejsiu, Altin - 2000

In June 1995, the Swedish parliament decided to cut the replacement rate in unemployment insurance from 80 percent to 75 percent, a change that took effect on January 1, 1996. This paper examines how this change affected job finding rates among unemployed insured individuals. To identify the...

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Labor market effects of COVID-19 in Sweden and its neighbors : evidence from novel administrative data

Juranek, Steffen; Paetzold, Jörg; Winner, Hannes; … - 2020

’), Sweden decided for much lighter restrictions. Empirically, we use novel administrative data on weekly new unemployment and … furlough spells from all 56 regions of the Nordic countries to compare the labor market outcomes of Sweden with the ones of its … neighbors. Our evidence suggests that the labor markets of all countries were severely hit by the pandemic, although Sweden …

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The political economy of two-tier reforms of employment protection in Europe

Ochel, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2008

implemented in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden. The paper seeks to show why two-tier reforms …

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Contracting out temporary help services in Germany

Jahn, Elke J. (contributor); Ochel, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2005

Since 2003 the German Public Employment Service (PES) has been experimenting with the contracting out of various services. One of the new labour market programmes is the Personnel Service Agencies, which provide client firms with jobseekers on a temporary assignment basis and are responsible for...

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Workers without borders? : culture, migration and the political limits to globalization

Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun W. - 2010

This paper examines the role of cultural factors in driving the politics and shape of migration policy. We show that there exists a broad political failure that results in inefficiently high barriers restricting the import of temporary foreign workers and also admitting an inefficiently large...

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How effective are hiring subsidies to reduce long-term unemployment among prime-aged jobseekers? : evidence from Belgium

Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - 2021

Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a...

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Trade liberalization and working conditions

Alvarez, Bastien; Orefice, Gianluca; Toubal, Farid - 2025

This paper examines how trade liberalization-induced labor demand shocks affect wages and non-wage working conditions. Using exogenous trade shocks from EU enlargement and worker-level data, we find that export liberalization increases temporary contracts and atypical work schedules,...

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