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2002:21: Optimal unemployment insurance with monitoring and sanctions

Jan Boone, Peter Fredriksson, Bertil Holmlund and Jan van Ours

2002:20: Dynamically assigned treatments: duration models, binary treatment models, and panel data models

Jaap Abbring and Gerard van den Berg

2002:19: An econometric analysis of the mental-health effects of major events in the life of older individuals

Maarten Lindeboom, France Portrait and Gerard van den Berg

2002:18: Minimum wages and employment in Swedish hotels and restaurants

Per Skedinger

2002:17: Imperfect information, wage formation, and the employability of the unemployed

Stefan Eriksson

2002:16: Do university enrollment constraints affect education and earnings?

Björn Öckert

2002:15: Income effects from labor market training programs in Sweden during the 80's and 90's

Thomas Andrén and Björn Gustafsson

2002:14: Economic incentives and gender differences in work absence behavior

Göran Broström, Mårten Palme and Per Johansson

2002:13: Assessing the effect of public policy on worker absenteeism

Per Johansson and Mårten Palme

2002:12: Wage policy and endogenous wage rigidity: a representative view from the inside

Jonas Agell and Helge Bennmarker

2002:11: Age effects in Swedish local labour markets

Oskar Skans

2002:10: Does early intervention help the unemployed youth?

Kenneth Carling and Laura Larsson

2002:9: Labor market programs, the discouraged-worker effect, and labor force participation

Kerstin Johansson

2002:8: The effect of vocational employment training on the individual transition rate from unemployment to work

Katarina Richardson and Gerard van den Berg

2002:7: An evaluation of the Swedish trainee replacement schemes

Hans Sacklén

2002:6: Sick of being unemployed? Interactions between unemployment and sickness insurance in Sweden

Laura Larsson

2002:5: Differential effects of Swedish active labour market programmes for unemployed adults during the 1990s

Barbara Sianesi

2002:4: Does active labour market policy work? Lessons from the Swedish experiences

Lars Calmfors, Anders Forslund and Maria Hemström

2002:3: Do labor market programs affect labor force participation?

Kerstin Johansson

2002:2: Removing the veil of ignorance in assessing the distributional impacts of social policies

Pedro Carneiro, Karsten T Hansen and James Heckman

2002:1: Active labour market policy vs employment tax credits: lessons from recent UK reforms

Richard Blundell and Costas Meghir

2001:14: What works and for whom: a review of OECD countries' experiences with active labour market policies

John Martin and David Grubb

2001:13: Labour market policies, strategies and statistics for people with disabilities: A cross-national comparison

Anders Bergeskog

2001:12: Counseling and monitoring of unemployed workers: theory and evidence from a controlled social experiment

Gerhard van den Bergh and Bas van deer Klaauw

2001:11: Now and forever? Initial and subsequent location choices of immigrants

Olof Åslund

2001:10: Public or private job matching for immigrant workers – an outline of a Swedish social experiment

Kenneth Carling, Helge Bennmarker and Anders Forslund

2001:9: Testing exogeneity under distributional misspecification

Xavier de Luna and Per Johansson

2001:8: The effects of working time reductions on wages, actual hours and equilibrium unemployment

Oskar Skans

2001:7: Resistant outlier rules and the non-Gaussian case

Kenneth Carling

2001:6: Determinants of plant closures in Swedish manufacturing

Fredrik Andersson and Altin Vejsiu

2001:5: An evaluation of the active labour market programmes in Sweden

Barbara Sianesi

2001:4: Skill loss, ranking of job applicants, and the dynamics of unemployment

Stefan Eriksson

2001:3: Attrition and misclassification of drop-outs in the analysis of unemployment duration

Johan Bring and Kenneth Carling

2001:2: The relative efficiency of labor market programs: Swedish experience from the 1990's

Kenneth Carling and Katarina Richardson

2001:1: Individual demand for local public schooling: Evidence from Swedish survey data

Åsa Ahlin and Eva Johansson

2000:10: The effect of increased employer contacts within a labour market training program

Per Johansson and Sara Martinson

2000:9: Ethnic enclaves and the economic success of immigrants - evidence from a natural experiment

Per-Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson and Olof Åslund

2000:8: Ranking of job applicants, on-the-job search, and persistent unemployment

Stefan Eriksson and Nils Gottfries

2000:7: Active labour market policies and real-wage determination - Swedish evidence

Anders Forslund and Ann-Sofie Kolm

2000:6: Decentralisation of active labour market policy: The case of Swedish local employment service committees

Martin Lundin and Per Skedinger

2000:5: The evolution of the marriage premium in the Swedish labor market 1968-1991

Katarina Richardson

2000:4: Effects of changes in the unemployment insurance eligibility requirements on job duration - Swedish evidence

Pathric Hägglund

2000:3: On-the-job training, firm resources and unemployment risks: an analysis of the Swedish recession 1991-1993

Carl le Grand

2000:2: Testing exogeneity in cross-section regression by sorting data

Xavier de Luna and Per Johansson

2000:1: Evaluation of Swedish youth labour market programmes

Laura Larsson

1999:9: The multi-dimensional nature of labor demand and skill-biased technical change

Erik Mellander

1999:8: Do benefit cuts boost job findings? Swedish evidence from the 1990s

Kenneth Carling, Bertil Holmlund and Altin Vejsiu

1999:7: Direct displacement effects of labour market programmes: the case of Sweden

Matz Dahlberg and Anders Forslund

1999:6: Self-employment grants vs. subsidized employment: Is there a difference in the re-unemployment risk?

Kenneth Carling and Lena Gustafson

1999:5: Unemployment duration and heterogenous search behavior among Swedish disabled workers

Maria Melkersson

1999:4: Job flows in Swedish manufacturing 1972-1996

Fredrik Andersson

1999:3: Swimming with the tide: solidarity wage policy and the gender earnings gap

Per-Anders Edin and Katarina Richardson

1999:2: Survey evidence on wage rigidity and unemployment: Sweden in the 1990s

Jonas Agell and Per Lundborg

1999:1: Policy programmes only for a few? Participation in labour market programmes among Swedish disabled workers

Maria Melkersson

1998:1: Municipal labour demand

Pål Bergström, Matz Dahlberg and Eva Johansson