Journal articles: 'Labour market Sweden'

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Björklund, Anders. "Evaluations of Labour Market Policy in Sweden." International Journal of Manpower 15, no. 5 (July 1994): 16–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/01437729410061429.

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Rauhut, Daniel, and Petri Kahila. "Youth Unemployment, Ageing and Regional Welfare: The Regional Labour Market Policy Response to Ageing in Sweden." European Spatial Research and Policy 19, no. 1 (July 26, 2012): 111–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10105-012-0009-4.

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The aim of this paper is to discuss the regional labour market policy response to demographic ageing in Sweden and its consequences on the labour supply of young adults. Regions with ageing problems already experience significant problems at the labour market. The overall conclusion is that labour market policies in Sweden addressing the consequences of ageing fail to include young adults and the policies do not address regional heterogeneity regarding e.g. ageing and youth unemployment.

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Wadensjö, Eskil. "Labour Market Policy and Employment Growth in Sweden." Labour 1, no. 3 (December 1987): 3–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9914.1987.tb00118.x.

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Kantová, Marcela, and Markéta Arltová. "Emerging from crisis: Sweden’s active labour market policy and vulnerable groups." Economic and Labour Relations Review 31, no. 4 (September 24, 2020): 543–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1035304620959704.

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Sweden has adopted an Active Labour Market Policy as a means of transitioning out of the economic crisis created by the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. The approach is to a significant extent reminiscent of that adopted following the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (GFC). The article examines the effectiveness of active labour market policy in Sweden over the period 2007–2012. By analysing these earlier policy outcomes, the aim is to assess the success of active labour market policy more broadly. The hypothesis that greater labour market flexibility allows the labour market policy to be more efficient is evaluated. With a focus on the labour supply, possible reasons for the reduced efficiency of state interventions are outlined using regression models. Conclusions derived from the models point to the failure of earlier Swedish active labour market policy towards the vulnerable groups of the unemployed, unemployed women and men aged 15–19 years and the long-term unemployed. JEL Codes: J08, J21, J64

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Boräng, Frida, and Lucie Cerna. "Constrained Politics: Labour Market Actors, Political Parties and Swedish Labour Immigration Policy." Government and Opposition 54, no. 1 (January 23, 2017): 121–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/gov.2016.51.

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Sweden used to be one of the most restrictive countries in the Organisation of Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) in terms of labour immigration policy. This was drastically changed in 2008 when a very liberal immigration law was passed. Why did one of the most restrictive labour immigration countries suddenly become one of the most liberal ones? The article argues that it is necessary to consider labour market institutions and their consequences for labour migration. These factors will influence the preferences, strategies and chances of success for various policy actors. A decline in union power and corporatism in Sweden had important consequences for its labour immigration. Following this decline, employers and centre-right parties became more active and adopted more liberal policy positions than previously. The article analyses policy developments since the 1960s and draws on official documents, position statements, party manifestos, media coverage and original elite interviews.

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Špadina, Helga. "Responsible employment policy: Comparative analysis of Croatian, Swedish and Danish active labour market policies." Zbornik radova Pravnog fakulteta Nis 59, no. 89 (2020): 181–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/zrpfn0-28911.

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In the past decades, the reduction of unemployment has been one of the crucial areas of social policies of the EU Member States because it is a key to economic growth and development. Taking into consideration the fast-changing labour market needs and the rapid transformation of labour relations, European public employment services are continuously creating new measures of active employment, with the aim to assist as many unemployed beneficiaries as possible and to swiftly re-integrate them into the labour markets. The main goal of active labour market programs is to make the matching process more efficient and to increase the number of successful matches of job vacancies and job seekers. Referring to examples of selected active employment measures in Croatia, Sweden and Denmark, this paper provides a comparative analysis of active labour market measures. The paper is divided into four sections. Section 1 provides an overview of measures to reduce unemployment; section 2 outlines the purpose of active labour market measures; section 3 provides a comparative analysis of five active labour market programs in Croatia, Denmark and Sweden, and a brief description of new activation strategies during Covid-19 in Croatia. The conclusion is that the creation of impactful social policies for employment substantially rests on conducting comprehensive analysis of the impact of active labour market measures from the perspective of new employment opportunities and the acquisition of new skills, as well as the analysis of the level of social inclusion of jobseekers.

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ELMKVIST, Magdalena. "SOCIAL INTEGRATION AND LABOUR MARKET ACCESS FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS IN KRONOBERG COUNTY IN SWEDEN." Folia Pomeranae Universitatis Technologiae Stetinensis Oeconomica 346, no. 92 (February 11, 2019): 17–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.21005/oe2018.92.3.02.

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Paulsson, Helena. "Vocational rehabilitation within the labour market administration in Sweden." Work 5, no. 3 (1995): 197–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/wor-1995-5307.

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OHLIN, Bertil. "Economic recovery and labour market problems in Sweden: II1." International Labour Review 152 (January 2013): 19–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1564-913x.2013.00158.x.

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Diedrich, Andreas. "Organizing Labour market integration support for immigrants in Sweden." Annales des Mines - Réalités industrielles Mai 2021, no. 2 (April 22, 2021): 109–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/rindu1.212.0109.

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Forsberg, G. "Occupational Sex Segregation in a ‘Woman-Friendly’ Society—The Case of Sweden." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 26, no. 8 (August 1994): 1235–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a261235.

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This author discusses the degree of ‘women-friendliness’ in Sweden. The focus is on the gender structure of the labour market today compared with the situation thirty years ago. To what degree has the Swedish welfare model increased opportunities for women? The author analyses both integration and segregation processes in the labour market but concentrates on different labour-market situations in order to highlight the everyday experiences of women in recruitment, in restructuring at specific workplaces, and in the workplace closure. The focus on particular situations allows for an examination of the processes of labour-market segregation—and integration—more effectively than with aggregate statistics. The crucial question is how the mechanisms of gendering are implemented in the modern gender contract in the Swedish labour market. Finally, the future possibilities of changing the gendering of the labour market is analysed. The forthcoming changes in the Swedish welfare system, resulting from cuts and notification in the public service sector, and the consequence of the application for EC membership are particularly important as women especially depend on the welfare system for jobs, and benefits, and as consumers.

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Sama, Thomas Babila. "NGOs and challenges confronted in the implementation of active labour market policies." International Journal of Public Leadership 13, no. 3 (August 14, 2017): 118–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijpl-11-2016-0050.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to find the challenges confronted by NGOs in the implementation of the active labour market policies of Finland and Sweden, and how the challenges could be overcome. Design/methodology/approach This is a qualitative empirical case study where two NGOs were selected in Finland and one NGO was selected in Sweden for the data collection. The two selected NGOs in Finland were Jyväskylän Katulähetys in the City of Jyväskylä and Pirkanmaan Sininauha in the City of Tampere. Meanwhile, the one selected NGO in Sweden was Stockholm’s Stadsmission in the City of Stockholm. Primary data for this study were collected through interviews with two senior executives of the selected NGOs in Finland and Sweden. Secondary data were collected through the websites of the selected NGOs in Finland and Sweden, the organizational records, books, published and unpublished research and from internet websites. The data were analyzed through qualitative content and thematic analyses. Findings The findings revealed that the selected NGOs in Finland and Sweden were confronted with four main challenges in their work, namely: funding challenge because the NGOs did not have sufficient funds to carry out their activities effectively; credibility challenge mainly by the NGO in Sweden because Sweden is a very secular country where there is political resistance for public money being given to faith-based organizations in the country; workforce recruitment challenge because the NGOs have to employ specifically long-term unemployed people from disadvantaged groups in the case of the NGOs in Finland, and because whenever they have to compete with other stakeholders for a bid to win a project funded by the city council, the city council often demands that about 80 per cent of their staff need to have a social work qualification in the case of the NGOs in Sweden; and competition challenge because of competition with other stakeholders to win bids from the city council in the case of the NGOs in Sweden. On the other hand, the findings revealed that these challenges could be overcome if the Government of Finland and Sweden provide the NGOs with sufficient funds for them to carry out their activities. Research limitations/implications The limitations of this study are that this is a case study focused only on two NGOs in Finland and one NGO in Sweden. Thus, in order to generalize the findings to include the whole country, it is recommended that a more representative number of NGOs be studied in future studies. This study also focused only on NGOs with a religious background in Finland and Sweden. Future studies could include NGOs with a non-religious background. Practical implications The practical implication of this study is that the study may be useful to policy makers in the development of policies for NGOs involved in the area of social service provision. Social implications The social implication is that this study may contribute in making NGOs to become more effective in their work in the society. Originality/value This study is original in that it is an empirical research.

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Harcourt, J. Mark. "Unemployment Reduction in Canada: Lessons from Japan and Sweden." Articles 51, no. 1 (April 12, 2005): 177–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/051080ar.

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The active labour market policy has been used to reduce the duration of unemployment in Sweden. The lifetime employment System has been used to lower the incidence of unemployment in Japan. Will the adoption of similar policies in Canada produce comparable reductions in unemployment? Emulating Japan and Sweden could prove difficult, since their policies reflect and reinforce employment interests that are uery different from Canada's. As a result, neither lifetime employment nor active labour market policy is transferable to Canada without major modifications to suit the stakeholder interests of Canadian unions, employers, and employees.

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Tasiran, Ali, and Kerem Tezic. "Early labour-market experiences of second-generation immigrants in Sweden." Applied Economics 39, no. 7 (April 2007): 809–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036840500461915.

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Geers, Frederick. "Labour Market Training in Sweden — A Reflection of Swedish Society." Journal of European Industrial Training 10, no. 4 (April 1986): 25–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eb002201.

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de Montgomery, Christopher Jamil, Marie Norredam, Allan Krasnik, Jørgen Holm Petersen, Emma Björkenstam, Lisa Berg, Anders Hjern, Marit Sijbrandij, Peter Klimek, and Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz. "Labour market marginalisation in young refugees and their majority peers in Denmark and Sweden: The role of common mental disorders and secondary school completion." PLOS ONE 17, no. 2 (February 16, 2022): e0263450. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263450.

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Background Due to the circumstances of their early lives, young refugees are at risk of experiencing adverse labour market and health outcomes. The post-settlement environment is thought to play a decisive role in determining how this vulnerability plays out. This study compared trends in labour market marginalisation in young refugees and their majority peers during early adulthood in two national contexts, Denmark and Sweden, and explored the mediating role of common mental disorders and secondary school completions. Methods Using registry data, 13,390/45,687 refugees were included in Denmark/Sweden and 1:5 matched to majority peers. Inequalities in labour market marginalisation were investigated during 2012–2015 in each country using linear probability models and mediation analysis. Country trends were standardised to account for differences in observed population characteristics. Results The risk of marginalisation was 2.1–2.3 times higher among young refugees compared with their majority peers, but the risk decreased with age in Sweden and increased in Denmark for refugees. Birth-cohort differences drove the increase in Denmark, while trends were consistent across birth-cohorts in Sweden. Differences in population characteristics did not contribute to country differences. Common mental disorders did not mediate the inequality in either country, but secondary school completions did (77–85% of associations eliminated). Conclusions The findings document both the vulnerability of young refugees to labour market marginalisation and the variability in this vulnerability across post-settlement contexts. While the contrast in policy climates in Denmark and Sweden sharpened over time, the risk of marginalisation appeared more similar in younger cohorts, pointing to the importance of factors other than national immigration and integration policies. Institutional efforts to assist young refugees through secondary education are likely to have long-lasting consequences for their socio-economic trajectories.

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Furåker, Bengt, and Tomas Berglund. "Flexicurity Institutions and Labour Market Mobility." International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 27, Issue 2 (June 1, 2011): 111–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/ijcl2011009.

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Advocates of flexicurity claim that flexibility and security in the labour market can be achieved by a combination of certain institutions: liberal Employment Protection Legislation (EPL), generous income protection, extensive Active Labour Market Policies (ALMPs), and good opportunities for Lifelong Learning (LLL). Such a mix of measures is assumed to lead to an efficiently functioning labour market, implying a win-win situation for both employers and employees. This article examines the relationship between flexicurity institutions and some forms of labour market mobility between employment and unemployment and between employment and inactivity in four Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, in the period 2000-2006. With the most liberal EPL and generous measures for people without jobs, Denmark is closest to the flexicurity ideal. Controlling for various other factors, it turns out that the Danish labour market generally - but not in every respect - has the highest levels of mobility. Perhaps the most interesting exception is that the highly significant transition rate from unemployment to employment is higher in Norway. The explanatory value of flexicurity is, thus, limited and the assumptions regarding the effects of mutually reinforcing flexicurity institutions are called into question.

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Svalund, Jørgen, and Tomas Berglund. "Fixed-term employment in Norway and Sweden: A pathway to labour market marginalization?" European Journal of Industrial Relations 24, no. 3 (November 13, 2017): 261–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959680117740777.

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We compare the effects of relatively liberal regulations on the use of temporary employment in Sweden and more restrictive rules in Norway. We find not only that temporary work may be a stepping stone out of unemployment but also that fixed-term employees are exposed to significant risks of long-term marginalization. Moreover, fixed-term employees in Sweden face greater risks of long-run unemployment and low earnings compared to those in Norway.

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Ghavanini, Anna Wallerman. "United we stand, divided we sue: Collective access to court for labour and social security claims in Sweden." European Labour Law Journal 12, no. 4 (November 23, 2021): 492–507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20319525211056619.

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While Sweden has long enjoyed a solid reputation for protecting weaker parties through a comprehensive welfare state and a labour market governed by collective bargaining, its system for enforcing these rights has rested upon the public authorities and the social partners rather than on judicial proceedings. Against this background, this article examines the legal avenues for bringing collective actions and obtaining collective redress before courts in social security and labour law cases in Sweden. It finds that the relevant legislation does not explicitly provide for collective redress in either field. Within social security law, collective access to court is practically excluded, whereas in labour law, the current procedural framework can only with difficulty be construed as lending itself to measures of collective redress, and then only with some significant legal and practical limitations. While indicative of the general situation as regards collective redress in Sweden, whose legislation on group actions has been criticised for its toothlessness and has been put to little practical use, this also suggests that the tradition of collectivism in the Swedish social security and labour market systems still does not translate into collectivism in judicial redress.

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Sanne, Christer. "The working hours issue in Sweden." Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 4, no. 4 (November 1998): 715–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/102425899800400410.

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The Swedish welfare state model is based on a high volume of male labour and steadily increasing labour market participation by women. General working time reductions to below the 40-hour norm did not previously enter into the trade unions' framework of goals, preference being given to individual working time reductions, for example in the form of parental leave. As a result of the employment crisis in the early 90s the prevalent conception of the welfare state based on economic growth was shattered, so that the idea of general working time reduction began to enjoy increased popularity in large sectors of the population, particularly among women.

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Gauffin, Karl. "Precariousness on the Swedish labour market: A theoretical and empirical account." Economic and Labour Relations Review 31, no. 2 (May 18, 2020): 279–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1035304620919206.

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The purpose of this article is to investigate emerging areas of precarious employment in Sweden. Based on the literature on dimensions of precariousness and neoliberalism, this article will begin with an analysis of the transitioning Swedish welfare state and the contextual environment of precarious employment in Sweden. This will serve as a point of departure for the development of an occupational classification scheme including measures of income and employment security. In an empirical analysis, the occupational classification will be applied to a population-based register material including two birth cohorts of employed Swedish residents aged 28–33, with a registered income. The development of income and employment security will be described and discussed. By applying this newly developed measure of precarious employment, this article will provide a platform for future theoretical and empirical research on precarious employment in a transitioning welfare state. JEL Codes: J40, J82, J88, I38

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Engström, Lars-Gunnar, and Staffan Janson. "Stress-related sickness absence and return to labour market in Sweden." Disability and Rehabilitation 29, no. 5 (January 2007): 411–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09638280600835986.

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Lundholm, Emma. "Interregional Migration Propensity and Labour Market Size in Sweden, 1970–2001." Regional Studies 44, no. 4 (May 6, 2009): 455–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00343400802662674.

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Osberg, Lars, Axel van den Berg, Bengt Furaker, and Leif Johansson. "Labour Market Regimes and Patterns of Flexibility: A Sweden-Canada Comparison." Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques 25, no. 1 (March 1999): 145. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3551410.

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Hult, Carl, and Jonas Edlund. "Age and labour market commitment in Germany, Denmark, Norway and Sweden." Work, Employment and Society 22, no. 1 (March 2008): 109–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0950017007087419.

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Knocke, Wuokko. "Integration or Segregation? Immigrant Populations Facing the Labour Market in Sweden." Economic and Industrial Democracy 21, no. 3 (August 2000): 361–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143831x00213005.

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Irastorza, Nahikari, and Pieter Bevelander. "The Labour Market Participation of Humanitarian Migrants in Sweden: An Overview." Intereconomics 52, no. 5 (September 2017): 270–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10272-017-0689-0.

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Johansson, Caroline. "Occupational Pensions and Unemployment Benefits in Sweden." International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 36, Issue 3 (September 1, 2020): 339–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/ijcl2020018.

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This article focuses on two Swedish benefits: occupational pensions and unemployment benefits. Both have undergone interesting developments recently, partly relating to changes in the public social security system, partly to changes in the labour market. These changes have led the social partners at sectoral level to decide on different priorities when negotiating collective agreements or offering unilateral benefits to their members. The overarching aim of the article is to illustrate and explain the increasing activity at sectoral level regarding occupational pensions and unemployment benefits. However, there are changes in the labour market that the social partners have not managed to address, or that it might not even be their role to address. When a significant proportion of welfare benefits derive from collective agreements and membership of private organizations, this has implications for atypical and self-employed workers, that are further elaborated in the article. Occupational Benefits, Pension, Unemployment, Collective Agreements, Swedish Model, the Social Partners, Atypical Work, Self-Employed, Collective Bargaining, Transition Agreements, Occupational Welfare

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Kusterer, Hanna Li, and Claudia Bernhard-Oettel. "Exploring Employability Constructions of Migrants in Sweden and Potential Consequences for Labour Market Entrance Recommendations." Social Sciences 9, no. 3 (March 4, 2020): 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci9030026.

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In the flexible Swedish labour market, the concept of employability has grown important. Within a neoliberal framework, accountability for one’s possibility to successfully obtain or keep employment rests with the individual. In contrast, within a social welfare discourse the individual is offered care and support in order to gain employment. The present study combined intersectional and discourse analytical approaches with the understanding that individual employability is subjectively constructed in the exploration of labour market induction, employability constructions and categorizations in the discourse used by government agencies directly involved in the labour market integration of newly arrived migrants. Public documents comprising information on labour market entrance, employability and associated concepts such as competence building and career development were analysed. The employability constructions were often contradictory—placed at the crossroads of neoliberal and social welfare discourses—and built on tacit assumptions and influenced by stereotypes. Conveying such employability constructions further could lead to exclusion from long-term employment and have detrimental psychological and health repercussions. Instead, it is of importance to work towards reconstructing migrants’ employability in this new context without damaging influence from inflexible categorizations and stereotypes.

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Saloniemi, Antti, Bengt Furåker, and Kristine Nergaard. "Lock-in Patterns among Employees: A Nordic Comparison." International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations 30, Issue 4 (December 1, 2014): 435–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.54648/ijcl2014025.

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Using survey data collected in 2010-2011, this article examines patterns of lock-in among employees in the Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish labour markets. Workers are defined as locked-in if they have considerable difficulty in finding an equally good job with some other employer. Empirically we measure the concept by means of the employees' own assessment of their labour market prospects. Our results indicate that lock-in is a matter of the interplay between employers and employees. The proportion of those locked-in is lower in Norway - with its higher demand for labour and lower levels of unemployment - than in Finland and Sweden. Young age and good health are associated with relatively optimistic views of job prospects, probably because these attributes impact on the ability to adapt to the demand for labour and because employers tend to be cautious about hiring older workers and those with health problems. The most significant obstacles to finding another job reported by the respondents are the labour market conditions in their place of residence or within commuting distance and their age.

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Bihagen, Erik, Magnus Nermo, Charlotta Stern, and Yvonne Åberg. "Elite mobility among college graduated men in Sweden." Acta Sociologica 60, no. 4 (January 6, 2017): 291–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0001699316684004.

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Using Swedish registry data, we study the chances of mobility into the Swedish labour market elite for men who graduated in the years 1985−2005. The elite is defined as top earners within mid- and large sized firms and within the public sector organisations (henceforth, we use organisation for both firms and public organisations). Using discrete time event history models, we study the incidence of elite entry in terms of external recruitment and internal promotion. The choice of field of study and of college or university are important, as are personality and, to a limited extent, cognitive ability. What is most striking is that having kin in elite positions increases the chance of elite entry in general, and having parents in top positions in the same organisation increases the likelihood of internal promotion. In sum, elite entry among college-educated males is associated with a diversity of factors, suggesting that complex explanations for labour market success should be considered, where skills, personality, and family ties all seem to matter.

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ÖUberg, PerOla, and Torsten Svensson. "Does Power Drive Out Trust? Relations between Labour Market Actors in Sweden." Political Studies 58, no. 1 (February 2010): 143–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.2008.00772.x.

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Lundh, Christer, Lennart Schön, and Lars Svensson. "Regional wages in industry and labour market integration in Sweden, 1861–1913." Scandinavian Economic History Review 53, no. 3 (September 2005): 71–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03585522.2005.10414260.

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Bussi, Margherita, and Jon Pareliussen. "Back to Basics - Literacy Proficiency, Immigration and Labour Market Outcomes in Sweden." Social Policy & Administration 51, no. 4 (June 4, 2017): 676–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/spol.12319.

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Ekberg, Jan. "Labour Market Career among Young Finnish Immigrants in Sweden: A Longitudinal Study." International Migration 34, no. 3 (July 1996): 371–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2435.1996.tb00533.x.

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Pulignano, Valeria. "Bringing labour markets ‘back in’: Restructuring international businesses in Europe." Economic and Industrial Democracy 32, no. 4 (April 6, 2011): 655–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143831x10392395.

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This article argues that labour market institutional differences need to be taken more into account to explain the diversity in restructuring processes undertaken by multinational companies (MNCs) within national contexts in Europe. Using an in-depth case study analysis of 12 international corporations affected by diverse restructuring processes in the Netherlands, Italy, France, Austria, Denmark, Ireland and Sweden, local social partners’ responses to change are seen to be shaped within their national frameworks. However, more variation is found among (and within) national labour market systems, which implies a dynamic version of institutional variations.

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Walwei, Ulrich, and Jürgen Deller. "Labour Market Participation of Older Workers: Drivers and Obstacles." Intereconomics 56, no. 6 (November 2021): 341–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10272-021-1010-9.

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AbstractFrom an international comparative point of view the paper deals with driving forces and potential obstacles for the labour market participation of older workers. It goes into depth by focusing on four case studies that seem to be typical for different contexts. Germany, Israel, Italy and Sweden were selected in order to examine the development and the situation of older workers in detail. Each country stands for a specific configuration, e.g. because it may represent a trend reversal, a continuously outstanding performance, or lasting problems. The cases also provde information on pension reforms and approaches to better manage ageing workforces, in some cases including a new balance of work and retirement. Being aware of the different country situations, it becomes obvious that one size of politics does not fit all. Independent of national policies, employability over the life cycle should gain more attention. Regarding future developments, continuous skill improvement and a healthy work environment are indispensable to keep older workers in work.

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Boschma, Ron, Rikard H. Eriksson, and Urban Lindgren. "Labour Market Externalities and Regional Growth in Sweden: The Importance of Labour Mobility between Skill-Related Industries." Regional Studies 48, no. 10 (January 16, 2014): 1669–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2013.867429.

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Hedlund, Martin, Linda Lundmark, and Olof Stjernström. "Rural restructuring and gendered micro-dynamics of the agricultural labour market." Fennia - International Journal of Geography 195, no. 1 (June 13, 2017): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.11143/fennia.59542.

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Based on a comparison of the employment trajectories of two cohorts of men and women in the agricultural sector in Sweden, this article gives an account of the past 50 years’ decline in employment in agriculture. The findings show that the decline of employment in agriculture was the result of fewer entries into the sector and more exits out of the sector. The findings also suggest that the restructuring of the agricultural sector has had greater effects on women than men, with women exiting the sector to a greater degree or never entering it to begin with.

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Meyer, Brett. "Learning to Love the Government." World Politics 68, no. 3 (May 18, 2016): 538–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0043887116000058.

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One counterintuitive variation in wage-setting regulation is that countries with the highest labor standards and strongest labor movements are among the least likely to set a statutory minimum wage. This, the author argues, is due largely to trade union opposition. Trade unions oppose the minimum wage when they face minimal low-wage competition, which is affected by the political institutions regulating industrial action, collective agreements, and employment, as well as by the skill and wage levels of their members. When political institutions effectively regulate low-wage competition, unions oppose the minimum wage. When political institutions are less favorable toward unions, there may be a cleavage between high- and low-wage unions in their minimum wage preferences. The argument is illustrated with case studies of the UK, Germany, and Sweden. The author demonstrates how the regulation of low-wage competition affects unions’ minimum wage preferences by exploiting the following labor market institutional shocks: the Conservatives’ labor law reforms in the UK, the Hartz labor market reforms in Germany, and the European Court of Justice's Laval ruling in Sweden. The importance of union preferences for minimum wage adoption is also shown by how trade union confederation preferences influenced the position of the Labour Party in the UK and the Social Democratic Party in Germany.

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Fossati, Flavia, and Fabienne Liechti. "Integrating refugees through active labour market policy: A comparative survey experiment." Journal of European Social Policy 30, no. 5 (November 2020): 601–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0958928720951112.

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In the wake of the recent increase in the inflows of refugees to Europe, governments have made considerable investments in public policies aimed at facilitating the labour market integration of refugees. Despite these efforts, the labour market participation of refugees remains low. This situation raises the question of whether employers actually appreciate these public policies and whether refugees’ participation in specific active labour market policies (ALMPs), such as work practice or wage subsidies, increases their likelihood of being hired. In this article, we take a novel approach and combine employers’ evaluations of specific ALMPs with their attitudes towards refugees. We argue that these labour market policies can only be successful when employers hold positive attitudes towards refugees in the first place. We investigate this question by means of a factorial survey experiment with employers in Austria, Germany and Sweden. Our results show that, indeed, employers’ evaluations of fictional refugee candidates who participated in ALMPs are influenced by their attitudes towards this group. Participation in these policy measures is regarded positively only by those employers who already hold positive attitudes towards refugees.

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Ohlsson, Rolf. "Demographic aspects on the labour market situation in Sweden during the interwar period." Scandinavian Economic History Review 42, no. 2 (May 1994): 187–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03585522.1994.10415884.

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Haandrikman, Karen, Natasha A. Webster, and Ann-Zofie Duvander. "Geographical Variation in Local Gender Contracts in Sweden." Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy 14, no. 3 (January 28, 2021): 679–701. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12061-020-09371-2.

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AbstractDespite Sweden’s national gender-neutral family and social policies, local differences in gender contracts exist and have been related to differences in the structure of the labour market and cultural traditions. Existing studies are outdated and used relatively large administratively defined areas, which may lead to several measurement and interpretation errors. This paper examines geographical variation in gender contracts in present-day Sweden using individualized neighbourhoods on different scales. Gender contracts are operationalized using six indicators on the level of family, politics and labour. We identify five types of local gender contracts: the metropolitan gender contract, the progressive gender contract, the suburban gender contract, the commuter gender contract and the traditional gender contract. The most gender equal patterns are found in metropolitan and other urban areas, with high shares of fathers taking parental leave and the highest shares of women with high education and gainful employment, and low shares of young mothers. The analyses give evidence of considerable local variation instead of a dominant gender contract in each region. The findings may stimulate further research and local policies on gender inequality.

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Castillo, Daniel. "Employer‐oriented labour market policies in Sweden: Creating jobs and the division of labour in the public sector." International Social Security Review 72, no. 2 (April 2019): 75–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/issr.12200.

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Irastorza, Nahikari, and Pieter Bevelander. "Skilled Migrants in the Swedish Labour Market: An Analysis of Employment, Income and Occupational Status." Sustainability 13, no. 6 (March 19, 2021): 3428. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13063428.

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In a globalised world with an increasing division of labour, the competition for highly skilled individuals—regardless of their origin—is growing, as is the value of such individuals for national economies. Yet the majority of studies analysing the economic integration of immigrants shows that those who are highly skilled also have substantial hurdles to overcome: their employment rates and salaries are lower and they face a higher education-to-occupation mismatch compared to highly skilled natives. This paper contributes to the paucity of studies on the employment patterns of highly skilled immigrants to Sweden by providing an overview of the socio-demographic characteristics, labour-market participation and occupational mobility of highly educated migrants in Sweden. Based on a statistical analysis of register data, we compare their employment rates, salaries and occupational skill level and mobility to those of immigrants with lower education and with natives. The descriptive analysis of the data shows that, while highly skilled immigrants perform better than those with a lower educational level, they never catch up with their native counterparts. Our regression analyses confirm these patterns for highly skilled migrants. Furthermore, we find that reasons for migration matter for highly skilled migrants’ employment outcomes, with labour migrants having better employment rates, income and qualification-matched employment than family reunion migrants and refugees.

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Campa, Pamela, Jesper Roine, and Svante Strömberg. "Unequal Labour Market Impacts of COVID-19 in Sweden — But Not Between Women and Men." Intereconomics 56, no. 5 (September 2021): 264–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10272-021-0996-3.

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Çelikaksoy, Aycan, and Eskil Wadensjö. "Refugee Youth in Sweden Who Arrived as Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children." Journal of Refugee Studies 30, no. 4 (May 9, 2017): 530–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jrs/few042.

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Abstract The number of children fleeing and/or seeking asylum alone without parents or guardians has been increasing during the last decade worldwide, where Sweden has been receiving the largest number of asylum claims by unaccompanied minors in Europe. Despite the growing interest in the situation of this group in destination countries, there is a lack of research articles that address this group with nationwide comprehensive data. This study examines the labour-market situation of the whole population of the refugee youth who entered Sweden as unaccompanied minors or separated children and were registered during the years 2003–12. We investigate whether this group is in a disadvantageous situation regarding labour-market incorporation compared to their counterparts who arrived with their families due to their specific marginalized and vulnerable position within society. The results show that this group exhibits capacity and resilience in terms of finding employment and willingness to work. The results are discussed with a structural incorporation framework from a reception and integration policy perspective as well as from an immigrant wellbeing and a ‘whole-child’ approach.

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Elldér. "Who is Eligible for Telework? Exploring the Fast-Growing Acceptance of and Ability to Telework in Sweden, 2005–2006 to 2011–2014." Social Sciences 8, no. 7 (June 27, 2019): 200. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci8070200.

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The share of Swedish employees eligible for telework, that is, when work tasks and contractual agreement allow, increased from 22% in 2005–2006 to 35% in 2011–2014. This article explores this fast diffusion of telework eligibility. Micro data from representative national surveys are used to examine how increasing opportunities for telework have spread among different groups of employees and different parts of the labour market and to examine the factors that increase or decrease the probability of being eligible for telework. We find significant increases in telework eligibility in almost all categories of workers and all labour market sectors. However, employees are clearly grouped into those achieving rapid gains in telework eligibility and those achieving such gains much more slowly. Telework continues to be primarily available to high-status segments of the labour market. Information and communication technology and technical solutions increasingly appear to be key factors enabling telework.

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Georgiana Noja, Gratiela, and Liana Son. "Challenges of International Migration in a Globalized World: Implications for Europe." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 2, no. 3 (2015): 7–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.18775/ijied.1849-7551-7020.2015.23.2001.

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The research conducted aims to identify and assess the interdependencies between international migration and labour market outcomes, focusing both on emigration and immigration effects on sending, and destination countries, as well as on economic (labour force) and non-economic (humanitarian, refugees) migration. International migration as one of the most important frontiers of globalization represents a major challenge globally, with significant economic consequences, especially for Europe, where large migrant flows have emerged in the context of European integration. Moreover, recently there is an increased waves of refugees and asylum seekers targeting Germany, Austria, Sweden or Turkey as main destination countries coming through Eastern and Central Mediterranean or Western Balkans routes. The analysis is based on developing various double-log fixed and random effects models, as well as dynamic models, using a panel structure that covers five main EU destination countries (Germany, Austria, Sweden, Italy and Spain) and three New EU Member States since 2007 and 2013 (Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia). We used a complex set of indicators (national accounts – GDP total, per capita, per person, employed; labour market – employment, unemployment, wages, secondary and tertiary education; migration specific data – immigration flows and stocks, asylum seekers and refugees, emigrant stocks), compiled during 2000-2014. Moreover, we used a SEM model (Structural Equations Modelling) to better capture the labour market impacts of international migration for the selected EU countries. The models are processed through OLS, GLS, and MLE methods, as well as by using panel corrected standard errors, and are completed within and out-of-sample predictions. The results show that immigration flows have important economic consequences leading to significant changes in labour market performances (slight decrease in employment rates and wage levels), which largely vary from one country to another. On the long-run, the negative effects of immigration tend to predominate. From the emigration perspective, the findings show some positive effects of labour emigration on sending countries, by enabling to upgrade the living standards for those remaining, mainly through remittances. Still, there is a negative impact generated on the size and structure of internal labour force and, on the long run, this is proving to be extremely negative (slow GDP per capita growth rates).

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Høgedahl, Laust, and Kristian Kongshøj. "New trajectories of unionization in the Nordic Ghent countries: Changing labour market and welfare institutions." European Journal of Industrial Relations 23, no. 4 (February 6, 2017): 365–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959680116687666.

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Unemployment insurance funds (the ‘Ghent system’), subsidized by the state and controlled by the labour movement, have contributed to high trade union densities in the Nordic countries. However, dependence on these funds as a recruiting mechanism makes trade union membership sensitive to institutional changes to unemployment insurance benefits and the institutional set-up surrounding and regulating them. In this article, we investigate recent institutional changes in the three Nordic countries following the Ghent model, Finland, Sweden and Denmark, and analyse the consequences for union and fund membership. These countries have witnessed different combinations of two types of reform, less attractive unemployment benefits plus new institutional alternatives to the traditional union-run funds, and this has led to different outcomes in each country. Benefit retrenchment and increased contributions led to a sharp decline in fund membership in Sweden, whereas this trend is less pronounced in Finland and Denmark. Instead, the main trend here has been a shift from union-led to alternative forms of fund membership, but in different ways.

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