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The paper studies the effects of changes in the age structure on aggregate labour market performance using a panel of Swedish local labour markets. The methodology of Shimer (2001) is used for studying the effects of youth cohort size and is extended to include the full age distribution. The...
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-term unemployment, and that labor market training tends to reduce the same stigma. We show that managers in small organizations have a …
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The Swedish adult education program called Knowledge Lift is unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of all low-skilled workers towards the medium level. This paper evaluates the effects of program participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably employment...
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unemployment benefits on the escape rate to employment. In this paper we take a closer look at the 20 per cent of workers who were … unemployment duration. It may very well be that dropping out, i.e. attrition, often occurs due to employment. In the analysis, we … refer to these individuals as misclassified in that they are typically treated as if their unemployment spell went beyond …
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This paper deals with the heterogeneous employment outcome at the plant level in Swedish manufacturing over the period 1972-96. Non-negligible gross flows of jobs is found to be a pronounced feature in Swedish manufacturing, but as compared to results on U.S. data, the average pace of job...
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Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from … unemployment to temporary jobs and unobserved determinants of the transition rates. The data contain multiple spells in labour … unemployment and they substantially increase the fraction of unemployed workers who have regular work within a few years after …
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