2001

High and persistent unemployment has been a major blot on the economic and social record of most OECD countries since the early 1970s:  the OECD average standardised unemployment rate rose from a...

The labour market situation for people with disabilities has been brought up-to-date in several OECD countries during the 1990s. This study provides an updated report from a rapidly changing policy fi...

We investigate the effect of counseling and monitoring on the individual transition rate to employment. We theoretically analyze these policies in a job search model with two search channels and endo...

This paper exploits a natural experiment to study the influence of regional factors on initial and subsequent location choices among immigrants. The results suggest that immigrants to Sweden are attra...

Evaluations of labour market programs and other related measures typically make use of observational data. This paper presents an outline for producing experimental data in the interest of testing a p...

We propose a general test for exogeneity that is robust against distributional misspecification. The test can also be used to identify other types of misspecifications, such as the presence of a rando...

The techniques of exploratory data analysis include a resistant rule, based on a linear combination of quartiles, for the identification of outliers. This paper shows that the substitution of the quar...

We study the determinants of plant closures in Swedish manufacturing using linked employer-employee data. From our theoretical framework we derive and empirically test hypothesis regarding the linkage...

The low unemployment rates traditionally enjoyed by Sweden have often been attributed to the country’s extensive system of active labour market programmes, which have thus often been regarded as a mod...

This paper investigates the consequences of skill loss as a result of unemployment in an efficiency wage model with turnover costs and on-the-job search. Firms are unable to differentiate wages and th...