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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ftzbwkiel:oai:econstor.eu:10419/82757 2024-01-21T10:09:02+01:00 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 http://hdl.handle.net/10419/82757 eng eng Uppsala: Uppsala University, Department of Economics Series: Working Paper No. 2007:19 gbv-ppn:540230480 urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-210882 http://hdl.handle.net/10419/82757 RePEc:hhs:uunewp:2007_019 http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen ddc:330 J65 J68 L62 L72 involuntary job loss displacement plant closures cutbacks labour market policy employment unemployment earnings Kündigung Arbeitsmarktpolitik Arbeitsvermittlung Beschäftigung Lohn Vergleich Schweden doc-type:workingPaper 2007 ftzbwkiel 2023-12-25T00:43:57Z 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 EconStor (German National Library of Economics, ZBW) |
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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: Uppsala University, Department of Economics |
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