The Swedish employment rate is high in an international comparison and has been rising during recent decades. This … survey in this report suggests that the main drivers of the high and rising Swedish employment rates can be found in policies …

trade and technology in the mid-1980s. In this paper, we examine the impact of technology on employment and skill demand … required labour per unit of output, technology has not reduced the aggregate employment in the Indian manufacturing sector …

employment, long-term sick leave, and disability pension. Logistic regression with interaction effects between CMD and … negative impact on all labour market outcomes studied, reducing employment while increasing the risk of long term sick leave … mitigates, societal inequalities in employment, long term sick leave and disability pension. When developing new strategies to …

. We argue that our focus on vacancies versus on employment has a distinct advantage of highlighting a mechanism through … percent increase in the statelevel effective minimum wage reduces vacancies by 2.4 percent in the same quarter, and the … cumulative effect is as large as 4.5 percent a year later. The negative effect on vacancies is more pronounced for occupations …

empirical counterpart to the theoretical concept of job openings. To achieve this, the literature relies on job vacancies … tight relationship between vacancies and subsequent hires on the micro level. To investigate this, I analyze a new data set … of Swedish hires and job vacancies on the plant level covering the period 2001-2012. I find that vacancies contain little …

vacancies in the local labor market, and what impact it has on employment. A greater availability of unemployed workers should … estimation, show economically significant effects of shocks to the number of vacancies on employment dynamics, while shocks to … make it easier for a firm to fill a vacancy but more vacancies at other firms should make it more difficult, due to the …

relating unemployment and vacancies to inflation, the link between these labor market indicators and inflation depends on …

inflation and labor market dynamics. In particular, it fails to generate a Beveridge curve: vacancies and unemployment are … because of the presence of labor market frictions, which generate long-run employment relationships. The measure of real …