An Evaluation of the Swedish System of Active Labor Market Programs in the 1990s

摘要: We investigate the presence of short- and long-term effects from joining a Swedish labor market program vis-a-vis more intense job search in open unemployment. Overall, impact system is found to have been mixed. Joining has increased employment rates among participants, result robust misclassification problem data. On other hand it also allowed participants remain significantly longer on unemployment benefits generally system, this being particularly case for those entitled individuals entering around time their benefits' exhaustion.