Unemployment duration, unemployment benefits, and labor market programs in Sweden

Carling, Kenneth; Edin, Per-Anders; Harkman, Anders; Holmlund, Bertil

doi:10.1016/0047-2727(95)01499-3

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“…1 Theory suggests that putting a limit on benefit duration will tend to accelerate job search and that benefit exhaustion will produce spike in escape rates Mortensen, 1977). The early empirical literature confirmed both predictions, namely, the reduction in escape rates/increase jobless duration with extended benefits (Katz and Meyer, 1990;Meyer, 1990) and the sharp increase in escape rates at benefit expiration (Katz and Meyer, 1990;Carling, Edin, Harkman, and Holmlund. 1996).…”

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How do different entitlements to unemployment benefits affect the transitions from unemployment into employment?

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2008

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Section: Motivationsupporting

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How do different entitlements to unemployment benefits affect the transitions from unemployment into employment?

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2008

Economics Letters

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“…Although this may indicate that joining may often be done purely in order to escape benefit exhaustion, it could still be the case that 34 E.g. Regnér (1997) provides some evidence that job-seekers may often enter labour market training just to renew benefits; Carling, Edin, Harkman and Holmlund (1996) show that UI-entitled individuals close to benefit exhaustion are significantly more likely to exit their unemployment spell to a program than those without unemployment compensation (cf. their Figure 3).…”

Section: Treatment Effects By Month Of Placement and Work-disincentivmentioning

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An evaluation of the Swedish system of active labour market programmes in the 1990s

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2002

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Abstract:We investigate the presence of short-and long-term effects from joining a Swedish labour market program vis-à-vis more intense job search in open unemployment. Overall, the impact of the program system is found to have been mixed. Joining a program has increased employment rates among participants, a result robust to a misclassification problem in the data. On the other hand it has also allowed participants to remain significantly longer on unemployment benefits and more generally in the unemployment system, this being particularly the case for those entitled individuals entering a program around the time of their unemployment benefits exhaustion.Keywords: Active labour market programs, evaluation, matching, propensity score, treatment effects, unemployment compensation, bounds, missing data. JEL classification: C14, J38, J65, J68.Acknowledgements: Above all I wish to acknowledge the numerous stimulating discussions, comments, suggestions and the continuous guidance and support offered me by my supervisor Costas Meghir. Many thanks to two anonymous referees for their constructive and detailed comments, and to Richard Blundell, Kenneth Carling, Monica Costa Dias, Bernd Fitzenberger, Anders Forslund, Kei Hirano, Hide Ichimura, Astrid Kunze, Laura Larsson, Elena Martinez, Katarina Richardson and Jeff Smith for beneficial discussions and helpful comments, and to seminar participants at IFAU, IFS, Copenhagen University and IZA for useful comments. Erich Battistin and Edwin Leuven should be separately thanked for countless stimulating discussions. Thanks also to Kerstin Johansson for the municipality-level data and to Helge Bennmark and Altin Vejsiu and especially Anders Harkman for helpful institutional information and data issues clarifications. A very special thank to Susanne Ackum Agell for her support and encouragement throughout, as well as for organising financial support through the IFAU. Financial support from the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Fiscal Policy at the IFS is equally gratefully acknowledged.

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“…19 Previous Swedish evidence on the importance of issues relating to unemployment benefits, work disincentive effects and cycling behaviour includes Ackum Agell, Björklund and Harkman (1995), Carling, Edin, Harkman and Holmlund (1996), Regnér (1997), Agell and Lundborg (1999), Carling, Holmlund and Vejsin (1999) and Hägglund (2000). However even after the typical 4-5 months duration of a programme, entitled participants do not seem to enjoy higher employment rates than if they had postponed their participation decision further.…”

Section: Programmes For Unemployed Adults: the Role Of Entitlement Stmentioning

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Swedish active labour market programmes in the 1990s: overall effectiveness and differential performance

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2002

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Unemployment duration, unemployment benefits, and labor market programs in Sweden

Cited by 168 publications

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How do different entitlements to unemployment benefits affect the transitions from unemployment into employment?

How do different entitlements to unemployment benefits affect the transitions from unemployment into employment?

An evaluation of the Swedish system of active labour market programmes in the 1990s

Swedish active labour market programmes in the 1990s: overall effectiveness and differential performance

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