Search for dissertations about: "youth unemployment"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 25 swedish dissertations containing the words youth unemployment.
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11. Workers, Firms and Welfare : Four Essays in Economics
Abstract : This thesis comprises four chapters, in two parts. The first part examines the result of a Swedish payroll tax reduction; first from the perspective of the worker, then from that of the employer. The second half of the thesis concerns subjective well-being, both from an individual and from an aggregate viewpoint. READ MORE
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12. Toward more inclusive labor markets : A firm-level perspective on hiring outsiders
Abstract : This thesis contains five self-contained papers on firms’ hiring decisions regarding outsiders and how these decisions interact with insiders. Outsiders are broadly defined as people with a weak labor market position, e.g., unemployed, non-Western migrants or minimum-wage workers. READ MORE
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13. Indirect effects of unemployment and low earnings : Crime and children's school performance
Abstract : This thesis consists of three self-contained essays that consider indirect effects of unemployment and low earnings on crime and children’s school performance. The first essay, Crime, unemployment and labor market programs in turbulent times (joint with Jonas Agell), investigates the effect of unemployment and participation in labor market programs, in general and among youth, on Swedish crime rates using a new panel data set for Swedish municipalities for the period 1996-2000. READ MORE
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14. Wages and unemployment of immigrants and natives in Sweden
Abstract : Ethnic Di®erences in the Swedish Youth Labor Market This paperinvestigates whether or not ethnic background a®ects labormarket success for young people in Sweden. A multinomial logit model of mutually exclusive labor market outcomes is estimated using the Swedish School Leaver Survey on young people who graduated from compulsory school in 1988. READ MORE
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15. Self-harm in youth : predicting mental illness, social marginalisation and suicide
Abstract : Aims: The aims of this thesis were to study self-harm in young people and to evaluate the risks of adverse outcomes through short- and long-term follow-up. The primary focus was on the risk of suicide, and also on the risk of mental illness and labour market marginalisation in adult life. READ MORE