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Labour force participation, employment and unemployment are three macroeconomic quantities for describing the labour market. The labour force consists of those who are employed – those who want to work and actually have a job – and those who are unemployed – those without a job, but who also want to work and are also looking for a job. Labour force participation is often expressed as the share of the labour force of the population of working age, while employment and unemployment are expressed as the number of employed and unemployed, respectively, in relation to the labour force.
An aim for labour market policy is to stimulate labour supply and create permanent higher employment and lower unemployment. Thus, the effects of these measures are crucial when evaluating labour market policy but also in evaluations of education-, social insurance and family policy.
Our research also includes questions on the other determining factors of labour force participation, employment and unemployment such as for example: legislation on employment protection, taxation, monetary policy, immigration and health of the population. But also on relations that go in the opposite direction such as effects of periods outside the labour force, or in unemployment, on future sickness absence, ill health, income and employment.
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Professionella nätverk och invandrades ställning på arbetsmarknaden
Mattias Engdahl Sébastien Willis Olof Åslund
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En utvärdering av Stockholms stads sommarjobbsprogram för unga 2012–2018
Daniel Knutsson Björn Tyrefors
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Ursprungslandets pensionsåldersregler och invandrades pensionsbeslut
Olof Åslund Axel Cronert
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De långsiktiga kostnaderna av att förlora jobbet
Jonas Cederlöf
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Arbetsmarknadsetablering bland flyktingar och deras anhöriga i Sverige, Norge och Danmark
Linus Liljeberg
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Arbetsmarknads- och hälsoeffekter av IVF: Lärdomar från ändrad medicinsk praxis i Sverige
Sonia Bhalotra Damian Clarke Hanna Mühlrad Mårten Palme
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Professional networks and the labour market assimilation of immigrants
Mattias Engdahl Sébastien Willis Olof Åslund
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Labor market effects of a youth summer employment program in Sweden
Daniel Knutsson Björn Tyrefors
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Origin country institutions and immigrant retirement timing
Olof Åslund Axel Cronert
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Reconsidering the cost of job loss
Jonas Cederlöf
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Health and labor market impacts of twin birth: Evidence from a Swedish IVF policy
Sonia Bhalotra Damian Clarke Hanna Mühlrad Mårten Palme
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The long-term integration of European refugees
Linus Liljeberg Sara Roman Olof Åslund
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Deaton Review of Inequality: Country studies
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Source country institutions and immigrant retirement
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Does the return to match quality depend on workers' outside options?
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Activation and mental health among unemployed youth
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The impact of restricting access to parental benefits on the integration of non-EU immigrant families
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Educational attainment and labour market perspectives in the offspring of parents with psychiatric illness: evidence base for preventive strategies