Anders Forslund
Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation
E-Mail: anders.forslund@ifau.uu.se
Institutional Affiliation: Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation
Information about this author at RePEc
NBER Working Papers and Publications
| February 2010 | Did Active Labor Market Policies Help Sweden Rebound from the Depression of the Early 1990s?
with Alan Krueger
in Reforming the Welfare State: Recovery and Beyond in Sweden, Richard B. Freeman, Birgitta Swedenborg and Robert Topel, editors
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| January 2000 | The Swedish Youth Labor Market in Boom and Depression
with Per-Anders Edin, Bertil Holmlund
in Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries, David G. Blanchflower and Richard B. Freeman, editors
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| January 1997 | An Evaluation of the Swedish Active Labor Market Policy: New and Received Wisdom
with Alan B. Krueger
in The Welfare State in Transition: Reforming the Swedish Model, Richard B. Freeman, Robert Topel, and Birgitta Swedenborg, editors
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| July 1994 | An Evaluation of the Swedish Active Labor Market Policy: New and Received Wisdom
with Alan B. Krueger: w4802
About 3% of GNP is spent on government labor market programs in Sweden, compared to 2% in Germany and less than 0.5% in the U.S. In Sweden these programs include extensive job training, public sector relief work, recruitment subsidies, youth programs, mobility bonuses, and unemployment benefits. Using county-level data, we provide new evidence that public relief workers displace other workers, especially in the construction sector. Our review of the previous literature suggests that job training programs have small effects on wages and re-employment in Sweden, but precise inferences are difficult because of small sample sizes. We also investigate alternative reasons for the stability of the Beveridge Curve in Sweden, and compare regional evolutions of employment and unemployment in Swe... Published: The Welfare State in Transition, Freeman, Richard, Birgitta Swedenborg,and Robert Topel, eds., Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1997,pp. 267-298.
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