“...The article estimates matching functions - the relationships between new hires, job vacancies and unemployment - using monthly time series data for Sweden. The...”

“...Self-employed individuals have arguably greater opportunities than wage earners to underreport their incomes. This article uses recent Swedish income and...”

“...In 1968, Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden's central bank) established the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel Prize. The Prize...”

“...  This paper provides a review of the recent literature on how incentives in unemployment insurance can be improved. We are particularly concerned with three...”

“...By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the early 1990s, however, the unemployment...”

“...One goal of the Public Employment Service is to facilitate matching between unemployed job‐seekers and job vacancies; another goal is to monitor job search so...”

“...This article analyses the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort among the unemployed is not perfectly...”

“...Should unemployment benefits be paid indefinitely at a fixed rate or should the rate decline (or increase) over a worker’s unemployment spell? We examine these...”