2004
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2004:19
Stepping-stones for the unemployed: The effect of temporary jobs on the duration until regular work
Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are oftensucceeded by a transition from temporary into regular work. We investigate whethertemporary work increases the t...
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2004:18
Employment subsidies - A fast lane from unemployment to work?
The treatment effect of a Swedish employment subsidy is estimatedusing exact covariate-matching and instrumental variablesmethods. Our estimates suggest that the programme had a positivetreatm...
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2004:17
The knowledge lift: The Swedish adult education program that aimed to eliminate low worker skill levels
The Swedish adult education program called Knowledge Lift is unprecedentedin its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of all low-skilledworkers towards the medium level. This paper eval...
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2004:16
Shifting attitudes and the labor market of minorities: Swedish experiences after 9-11
Dan-Olof Rooth Olof Åslund
Several studies suggest that the terrorist attacks in the US on September 11, 2001, caused at least a temporary change of attitude toward certain minorities in Sweden. We study unemployment exit aroun...
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2004:15
The effects of wage compression on training: Swedish empirical evidence
Thomas Ericson
This paper investigates the relation between workers’ on-the-job training activities and the degree of wage compression in their occupation. With respect to general training – as opposed to firm-speci...
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2004:14
Scarring effects of the first labour market experience: A sibling based analysis
Oskar Nordström Skans
The paper studies the relationship between teenagers’ first labour market experience and subsequent labour market performance using data on all Swedish youths graduating from vocational high school pr...
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2004:13
Human capital is the key to the IT productivity paradox
Unlike previous analyses, we consider (i) possible externalities in the use of IT and ii) IT and human capital interactions. Examining, hypothetically, the statistical consequences of errone...
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2004:12
Survey non-response and unemployment duration
Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey non-response may then cause a bias. We study this using a unique dataset that combines survey informatio...
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2004:11
Public employment and the double role of bureaucrats
Matz Dahlberg Eva Mörk
Bureaucrats in the government sector have a double role since they are both suppliers and demanders of public employment; they are publicly employed (supply labor) and they have an important say in de...
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2004:10
Moral hazard and sickness insurance: Empirical evidence from a sickness insurance reform in Sweden
Per Johansson Mårten PalmeWe use a reform of Sweden’s sickness insurance system as a sourceof exogenous variation to analyse the presence of moral hazard. As aresult of the reform, the replacement level was reduced from 90...