Page content
Labour force participation, employment and unemployment are three macroeconomic quantities for describing the labour market. The labour force consists of those who are employed – those who want to work and actually have a job – and those who are unemployed – those without a job, but who also want to work and are also looking for a job. Labour force participation is often expressed as the share of the labour force of the population of working age, while employment and unemployment are expressed as the number of employed and unemployed, respectively, in relation to the labour force.
An aim for labour market policy is to stimulate labour supply and create permanent higher employment and lower unemployment. Thus, the effects of these measures are crucial when evaluating labour market policy but also in evaluations of education-, social insurance and family policy.
Our research also includes questions on the other determining factors of labour force participation, employment and unemployment such as for example: legislation on employment protection, taxation, monetary policy, immigration and health of the population. But also on relations that go in the opposite direction such as effects of periods outside the labour force, or in unemployment, on future sickness absence, ill health, income and employment.
New reports
Search all reports.
All reports-
Dödlighet och sjuklighet hos arbetstagare i krympande yrken
Sofia Hernnäs
-
Ekonomiska effekter av taxikörkort
Mounir Karadja Anton Sundberg
-
Hur går det för personer i rutinyrken som förlorar sitt jobb?
Yaroslav Yakymovych
-
Flyktingar och flyktinganhörigas etablering på arbetsmarknaden i Stockholm, Göteborg och Malmö
Mattias Engdahl Linus Liljeberg
-
Insatser för unga arbetslösa med nedsatt arbetsförmåga
Caroline Hall Inés Hardoy Kristine von Simson
-
Perspektiv på konsumtionsbeskattning
Spencer Bastani
New working papers
Search through all working papers.
All working papers-
Mortality, morbidity, and occupational decline
Sofia Hernnäs
-
The labor market impact of a taxi driver’s license
Mounir Karadja Anton Sundberg
-
Automation when skills are bundled
Sofia Hernnäs
-
Dispersion over the business cycle: passthrough, productivity and demand?
Mikael Carlsson Alex Clymo Knut-Eric Joslin
-
Policies for young adults with reduced work capacity
Caroline Hall Inés Hardoy Kristine von Simson
-
Consequences of job loss for routine workers
Yaroslav Yakymovych
Referral response
Researchers/Research Officers
Research in progress
-
Professional networks and the labour market assimilation of immigrants
-
Labour market outcomes for participants in the establishment program in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
-
How does intelligence and social ability affect individual income and wealth?
-
Beyond good examples. Analyses of municipal variations in the efforts for young people who are neither working nor studying
-
The effects of randomised holiday jobs in Stockholm City
-
The social mobility of refugee children