Targeted wage subsidies and firm performance

Stefano Lombardi, Oskar Skans and Johan Vikström ()

Labour Economics, 2018, vol. 53, issue C, 33-45

Abstract: This paper studies how targeted wage subsidies affect the performance of the recruiting firms. Using Swedish administrative data from the period 1998–2008, we show that treated firms substantially outperform other recruiting firms after hiring through subsidies, despite identical pre-treatment performance levels and trends in a wide set of key dimensions. The pattern is less clear from 2007 onwards, after a reform removed the involvement of caseworkers from the subsidy approval process. Overall, our results suggest that targeted employment subsidies can have large positive effects on post-match outcomes of the hiring firms, at least if the policy environment allows for pre-screening by caseworkers.

Keywords: Wage subsidies; Labor demand; Firms performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J08 J2 J6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2018.04.002

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