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2004:2: Competition between employed and unemployed job applicants: Swedish evidence

Stefan Eriksson and Jonas Lagerström

2004:1: Statistically assisted programme selection - International experiences and potential benefits for Switzerland

Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner and Heidi Steiger

2003:19: A simple procedure for the evaluation of treatment effects on duration variables

Jaap Abbring and Gerard van den Berg

2003:18: Empircial labor search models: A survey

Zvi Eckstein and Gerard van den Berg

2003:17: Selection bias, comparative advantage and heterogeneous returns to education: Evidence from China in 2000

James Heckman and Xuesong Li

2003:16: Earnings effects of adult secondary education in Sweden

Erika Ekström

2003:15: Social interactions and unemployment

Peter Hedström, Ann-Sofie Kolm and Yvonne Åberg

2003:14: Crime, unemployment and labor market programs in turbulent times

Anna Nilsson and Jonas Agell

2003:13: The effect of schooling and ability on achievement test scores

Karsten T Hansen, James Heckman and Kathleen Mullen

2003:12: The effect of search frictions on wages

Gerard van den Berg and Aico van Vuuren

2003:11: Recruitment to sheltered employment: Evidence from Samhall, a Swedish state-owned company

Per Skedinger and Barbro Widerstedt

2003:10: The determinants of participation in a social program: Evidence from a prototypical job training program

James Heckman and Jeffrey Smith

2003:9: Estimating distributions of treatment effects with an application to the returns to schooling and measurement of the effects of uncertainty on college choice

Pedro Carneiro, Karsten Hansen and James Heckman

2003:8: Employer-sponsored training in stabilisation and growth policy perspectives

Christina Håkanson, Satu Johanson and Erik Mellander

2003:7: Do when and where matter? Initial labor market conditions and immigrant earnings

Olof Åslund and Dan-Olof Rooth

2003:6: Labour market programmes and geographical mobility: migration and commuting among programme participants and openly unemployed

Urban Lindgren and Olle Westerlund

2003:5: Improving incentives in unemployment insurance: A review of recent research

Peter Fredriksson and Bertil Holmlund

2003:4: Using matching, instrumental variables and control functions to estimate economic choice models

James Heckman and Salvador Navarro

2003:3: Employment, mobility, and active labor market programs

Peter Fredriksson and Per Johansson

2003:2: The impact of active labor market programs on municipal services

Eva Mörk

2003:1: Program evaluation and random program starts

Peter Fredriksson and Per Johansson

2002:23: The value of a third year in upper secondary vocational education - Evidence from a piloting scheme

Erika Ekström

2002:22: A cross-country comparison of labor market frictions

Geert Ridder and Gerard van den Berg

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