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Sweden has a long tradition of ambitious active labour market policy with employment offices and many different labour market policy measures. The aim of the policy is to create durable higher employment and lower unemployment. When we evaluate labour market policy, its effects on unemployment and employment are thus in focus.
The evaluations are of two kinds: we study both the effects of the programme on participants (individual effects) and the effects that can emerge for other people than participants (macro effects).
Participant effects
The evaluations of individual effects deal with comparing programme participation with non-participation in order to thus be able to form a conclusion about what the effects of programmes are. The researcher can, for example, compare how quickly individuals in the respective group become employed, the share of individuals on social security in the respective group or the annual income of the groups in the following years.
Macro effects
Labour market policy also has a large number of possible effects on other people than the participants. Macro evaluations study what are the effects of the programmes on:
--matching between the number of vacancies and the number of job seekers
--direct crowding out (that programme participants get jobs that would otherwise have been regular jobs)
--wage formation
--labour force participation
--total unemployment through all the above mentioned channels.
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Etnisk yrkessegregering på arbetsmarknaden – har diskriminering någon betydelse?
Magnus Bygren Moa Bursell
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(Kommunala) insatser för att underlätta arbetsmarknadsinträdet för flyktingar och deras anhöriga
Mattias Engdahl Anders Forslund Ulrika Vikman
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Invandrade lärares erfarenheter efter Snabbspåret för lärare och förskolelärare och kompletterande lärarutbildningar
Catarina Enemou Elin Ennerberg
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Vem får mer? Två enkätexperiment om arbetsförmedlares beslut i den dagliga kontakten med arbetssökande
Josefin Häggblom Martin Lundin
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Insatser för unga arbetslösa med nedsatt arbetsförmåga
Caroline Hall Inés Hardoy Kristine von Simson
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Studiebidrag i stället för lån? Effekten av rekryteringsbidraget för studiedeltagande och arbetsmarknadsutfall
Gunnar Brandén
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The making of ethnic segregation in the labor market -Evidence from a field experiment
Magnus Bygren Moa Bursell
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Deservingness and street-level decision-making. Two survey experiments on the use of discretion in the public sector
Josefin Häggblom Martin Lundin
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Policies for young adults with reduced work capacity
Caroline Hall Inés Hardoy Kristine von Simson
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Replacing student grants with loans. Evidence from a Swedish policy reform.
Gunnar Brandén
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No activation without reconciliation? The interplay between ALMP and ECEC in relation to women employment unemployment and inactivity in 30 OECD countries 1985-2018
Rense Nieuwenhuis
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Productivity shocks, long-term contracts and earnings dynamics
Neele Balke Thibaut Lamadon
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What kind of support is given to participants in Rusta och matcha?
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Activation and mental health among unemployed youth
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Labour market outcomes for participants in the establishment program in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
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Evaluation of a language support internship
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The effects of randomised holiday jobs in Stockholm City
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Kan elektroniska platsförslag leda till bättre matchning mellan sökande och jobb?