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- Bennmarker, Helge, et al.
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Do Benefit Hikes Damage Job Finding? Evidence from Swedish Unemployment Insurance Reforms
- 2005
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was the introduction of a two-tiered benefit structure for some unemployed individuals. This system involved supplementary compensation during the first 20 weeks of unemployment. The 2002 reform retained the two-tiered benefit structure but involved also substantial benefit hikes for spells exceeding 20 weeks. This paper examines how these reforms affected transitions from unemployment to employment. We take advantage of the fact that the reforms had quasi-experimental features where the “treatments” differed considerably among unemployed individuals. We find that the reforms had strikingly different effects on job finding among men and women. The two reforms in conjunction are estimated to have increased the expected duration of unemployment among men but to have decreased the duration of unemployment among women. The overall effect on the duration of unemployment is not statistically different from zero. However, the reforms reduced job finding among males who remained unemployed for more than 20 weeks.
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- Bennmarker, Helge, et al.
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Do Benefit Hikes Damage Job Findings? : Evidence from Swedish Unemployment Insurance Reforms
- 2007
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Ingår i: Labour. - : Blackwell. - 1121-7081 .- 1467-9914. ; 21:1, s. 85-120
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was the introduction of a two-tiered benefit structure for some unemployed individuals. This system involved supplementary compensation during the first 20 weeks of unemployment. The 2002 reform retained the two-tiered benefit structure but involved also substantial benefit hikes for spells exceeding 20 weeks. This paper examines how these reforms affected transitions from unemployment to employment. We take advantage of the fact that the reforms had quasi-experimental features where the 'treatments' differed considerably among unemployed individuals. We find that the reforms had strikingly different effects on job finding among men and women. The two reforms in conjunction are estimated to have increased the expected duration of unemployment among men but to have decreased the duration of unemployment among women. The overall effect on the duration of unemployment is not statistically different from zero. However, the reforms reduced job finding among men who remained unemployed for more than 20 weeks.
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- Carling, Kenneth, et al.
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Do benefit cuts boost job findings? : Swedish evidence from the 1990s
- 1999
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In June 1995, the Swedish parliament decided to cut the replacement rate in unemployment insurance from 80 percent to 75 percent, a change that took effect on January 1, 1996. This paper examines how this change affected job finding rates among unemployed
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- Carling, Kenneth, et al.
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Unemployment duration, unemployment benefits, and labor market programs in Sweden
- 1996
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Ingår i: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS. - : ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA LAUSANNE. - 0047-2727. ; 59:3, s. 313-334
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Standard search theory as well as some empirical evidence suggest that an unemployed individual's probability of entering employment increases as he approaches the time when unemployment benefits are due to expire. This pattern may not carry over to a cou
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- Nyberg, Lars, et al.
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The development of a virtual reality system to study tendency of falling among older people
- 2005
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Ingår i: International Journal on Disability and Human Development. - 1565-012X. ; 4:3, s. 239-243
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Injuries related to falls are a major threat to the health of older persons. A fall may result not only in an injury but also in a decreased sense of autonomy in the daily life. To be able to prevent such falls, a need to further understand the complex mechanisms involved in balance and walking is needed. Here we present an immersive virtual reality system, in which a person can move around while being subjected to various events, which may influence balance and walking
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- Sondell, Björn, et al.
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Altered walking pattern in a virtual environment
- 2005
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Ingår i: Presence - Teleoperators and Virtual Environments. - Cambridge : MIT Press. - 1054-7460 .- 1531-3263. ; 14:2, s. 191-197
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Falls and fractures among elderly persons constitute a major health problem. Many falls occur while walking and falls that occur during turning often result in a fracture. Methods aimed at understanding the complex mechanisms involved in walking should therefore assess tested individuals during walks and turns. In order to identify persons at risk and take the correct preventive measures, it is important to find methods that quantify movements as the tested persons are processing multisensory input. In a clinical setting this is sometimes difficult to achieve in a controlled manner, since tests are difficult to set exactly the same from one time to another. Using a virtual environment (VE) and a tracker system, conditions such as light, sound, events, body movements, and room size can be controlled and measured. Tests in VE can therefore be identically reproduced over and over again to evaluate if a person can withstand changing outer demands at any given moment. In order to perform quantitative measures 8 persons (21-74 years) were tested in immersive virtual reality. The VE was a corridor in which expected and unexpected events could be produced. Events studied were doors swinging open in front of the subjects during a walk and a virtual tilting of the environment. Trackers were used for collecting and analyzing the movement data. Our results show that the system was well tolerated among the subjects and that there was a clear tendency that the system could generate fall tendency among the subjects. There was also a difference among the subjects regarding walking strategies when subjected to the various events.
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- Vejsiu, Altin, et al.
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Do benefit cuts boost job findings? : Swedish evidence from the 1990s
- 1999
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In June 1995, the Swedish parliament decided to cut the replacement rate in unemployment insurance from 80 percent to 75 percent, a change that took effect on January 1, 1996. This paper examines how this change affected job finding rates among unemployed insured individuals. To identify the effect of the policy we exploit a quasi-experimental feature of the benefit cut: only a fraction of the unemployed was affected by the reduction in replacement rates. We compare the evolution of job finding rates before and after the reform among those affected and those not affected. Our estimates suggest that the reform caused an increase in the transition rate of roughly 10 percent. There is also evidence of anticipatory behavior among the unemployed; the effects of the reform seem to operate several months before its actual implementation in January 1996.
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