Arbeitspapier

The Swedish Youth Labor Market in Boom and Depression

This paper is concerned with the labor market experience of Swedish youths during the 1980s and the 1990s. The first objective is to portray early economic attainment among young Swedes. The second objective of the paper is to examine the impact of labor market programs on youth employment. We find that the slump in the 1990s has been associated with dramatic increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand for labor by skill attributable to technological innovation. The employment crisis has been met by an unprecedented increase in active labor market programs, in large part targeted at unemployed youths. There is a risk that these programs may crowd out regular youth employment, a hypothesis that is supported in our empirical investigation of regular youth employment in Swedish municipalities.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 1998:3

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Labor Demand
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
Thema
Employment
Unemployment
Wages
Labour force and employment
Size and structure
Employment determination
Demand for labour

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Edin, Per-Anders
Forslund, Anders
Holmlund, Bertil
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Uppsala University, Department of Economics
(wo)
Uppsala
(wann)
1998

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-2403
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Edin, Per-Anders
  • Forslund, Anders
  • Holmlund, Bertil
  • Uppsala University, Department of Economics

Entstanden

  • 1998

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