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The Swedish Youth Labor Market in Boom and Depression
Edin, Per-Anders; Forslund, Anders; Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998
increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419214
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Worker Absenteeism in Search Equilibrium
Engström, Per; Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2005
The paper presents a tractable general equilibrium model of search unemployment that incorporates absence from work as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642483
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Sickness Absence and Search Unemployment
Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2004
The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … benefits affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644525
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A Description of Routes out of the Labor Force for Workers in Sweden
Hallberg, Daniel - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2003
unemployment. Usinglongitudinal micro data from the period between 1992 and 1999, it also studies alternative measures of … retirement, joint retirement behavior of spouses, transition path probabilities, and successive exits in terms of a reduction in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644602
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Swedish Employment in the 1950s - Filling the Lacuna
Gunnarsson, Gudmundur; Lindh, Thomas - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1997
There are no published data on the number of employed persons in Sweden between 1950 and 1960. The lacuna prevents linking modern employment series to the historical time series 1870-1950. Thereby long-term studies of Swedish economic development are seriously impaired. This paper evaluates and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644633
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Local Economies and General Elections
Elinder, Mikael - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2006
This paper estimates voters’ response to municipality and regional level unemployment and economic growth, in Swedish … reduction in regional unemployment by one percentage point is associated with an increase in the support for the national … government by about 0.8 and 1.1 percentage points. Changes in unemployment and growth at the municipality level seem to have much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644560
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Immigrant Settlement Policies and Subsequent Migration
Åslund, Olof - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000
Many countries consider the residential concentration among immigrants a problem. This paper studies the factors influencing individual location decisions and evaluates a Swedish attempt to change the residential distribution of refugee immigrants in the late 1980's. Despite common perceptions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196917
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Settlement Policies and the Economic Success of Immigrants
Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Åslund, Olof - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000
Many developed countries, e.g. the UK, Germany, and Sweden, use or have used settlement policies to direct the inflow of new immigrants away from immigrant dense metropolitan areas. We evaluate a reform of Swedish immigration policy that featured dispersion of refugee immigrants across the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196926
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Simulating the future of the Swedish baby-boom generations
Klevmarken, N. Anders; Bolin, Kristian; Eklöf, Matias; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007
For the purpose of studying the consequences of the ageing of the Swedish population a group of scientists have enlarged the microsimulation model SESIM - originally developed at the Swedish Ministry of Finance - with modules that simulate health status, take up of sickness benefits, retirement,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771040
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Evidence from a Natural Experiment.
Edin, P.-A.; Fredriksson, P.; Aslund, O. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000
Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic "enclaves" within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005779753