Long term effects of public policy for displaced workers in Sweden – shipyard workers in the West and miners in the North
The objective of this paper is to study the long term effects of public policy measures for displaced workers. Our focus is on the individuals affected by the cutbacks at the LKAB iron ore mines in northern Sweden in 1983 and the closure of the Uddevalla Shipyard in western Sweden in 1985. These wor...
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ftuppsalauniv:oai:DiVA.org:uu-210882 2023-05-15T17:44:39+02:00 Long term effects of public policy for displaced workers in Sweden – shipyard workers in the West and miners in the North Ohlsson, Henry Storrie, Donald 2007 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-210882 eng eng Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions Uppsala : Department of Economics, Uppsala University Working paper / Department of Economics, Uppsala University (Online), 1653-6975 2007:19 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-210882 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess involuntary job loss displacement plant closures cutbacks labour market policy employment unemployment earnings Report info:eu-repo/semantics/report text 2007 ftuppsalauniv 2023-02-23T21:40:43Z The objective of this paper is to study the long term effects of public policy measures for displaced workers. Our focus is on the individuals affected by the cutbacks at the LKAB iron ore mines in northern Sweden in 1983 and the closure of the Uddevalla Shipyard in western Sweden in 1985. These workers not only experienced job loss, but were also the target group for extraordinary labour market policies. Using register data from Statistics Sweden (labour market status, earnings, education etc.), we follow those affected until 1999. We compare this with the corresponding development of a large sample other workers who lost their jobs because of plant closures in 1987–88 but who did not receive extraordinary measures. Estimations of the net effect of the extraordinary measures find that they did have positive long-term effects for the displaced shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison group. Report Northern Sweden Uppsala University: Publications (DiVA) |
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The objective of this paper is to study the long term effects of public policy measures for displaced workers. Our focus is on the individuals affected by the cutbacks at the LKAB iron ore mines in northern Sweden in 1983 and the closure of the Uddevalla Shipyard in western Sweden in 1985. These workers not only experienced job loss, but were also the target group for extraordinary labour market policies. Using register data from Statistics Sweden (labour market status, earnings, education etc.), we follow those affected until 1999. We compare this with the corresponding development of a large sample other workers who lost their jobs because of plant closures in 1987–88 but who did not receive extraordinary measures. Estimations of the net effect of the extraordinary measures find that they did have positive long-term effects for the displaced shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison group. |
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Long term effects of public policy for displaced workers in Sweden – shipyard workers in the West and miners in the North |
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Long term effects of public policy for displaced workers in Sweden – shipyard workers in the West and miners in the North |
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Long term effects of public policy for displaced workers in Sweden – shipyard workers in the West and miners in the North |
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Long term effects of public policy for displaced workers in Sweden – shipyard workers in the West and miners in the North |
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Long term effects of public policy for displaced workers in Sweden – shipyard workers in the West and miners in the North |
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long term effects of public policy for displaced workers in sweden – shipyard workers in the west and miners in the north |
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Uppsala universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen |
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Working paper / Department of Economics, Uppsala University (Online), 1653-6975 2007:19 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-210882 |
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