Labour market policy and unemployment insurance
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Labour market policy and unemployment insurance
（FIEF studies in labour markets and economic policy）
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1991
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This second volume from the Swedish Trade Union Research Institute looks at recent research on labour market policies. The question of the extent of government intervention is examined between the two extremes of the effects of unrestricted and unhampered markets, and the old Keynesian view of benevolent governments. Job creation policies and labour market programmes both in Europe and the USA are reviewed and cost-benefit rules for job-training programmes are proposed. The study pays particular attention to the situation of unemployment in Sweden, which is low in comparison to many OECD economies. The authors analyze the links between the extension of unemployment insurance benefits and the duration and flow of unemployment in Sweden. They also discuss general issues concerning unemployment insurance and incentives.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Direct job creation - economic evaluation and lessons for the United States and Western Europe: employment and training policy - some theoretical considerations
- employment and training policy - macro-economic and exchange rate implications
- evaluation of job creation programmes
- what do we know about what works and for whom?
- conclusions and appendix
- cost-benefit rules for job-training programmes
- labour market training - the lesson from Swedish evaluations. Part 2 The economics of unemployment insurance - the case of Sweden: problems in insurance markets
- the Swedish system
- incentive effects
- unemployment insurance and income distribution
- aspects of optimal unemployment insurance.
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