Bertil Holmlund

Recent Papers in English

Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Monitoring and Sanctions (with Jan Boone, Peter Fredriksson and Jan van Ours). Economic Journal, March 2007.
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Improving Incentives in Unemployment Insurance: A Review of Recent Research (with Peter Fredriksson). Journal of Economic Surveys, vol 20, No 3 (2006).
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The Rise and Fall of Swedish Unemployment. Working Paper 2003:13, Department of Economics, Uppsala University. Short version published in M Werding (ed), Structural Unemployment in Western Europe: Reasons and Remedies, MIT Press 2006.
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Optimal Unemployment Insurance Design: Time Limits, Monitoring, or Workfare? (with Peter Fredriksson). International Tax and Public Finance, vol 13, No 5 (2006).
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Do Benefit Hikes Damage Job Finding? Evidence from Swedish Unemployment Insurance Reforms (with Helge Bennmarker and Kenneth Carling). LABOUR, March 2007.
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Worker Absenteeism in Search Equilibrium (with Per Engström). Scandinavian Journal of Economics, September 2007.
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Tax Evasion and Self-Employment in a High-Tax Country: Evidence from Sweden (with Per Engström). Applied Economics, vol 41, Issue 19 (2009).
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Mind the Gap? Estimating the Effects of Postponing Higher Education (with Qian Liu and Oskar Nordström Skans). Oxford Economic Papers, October 2008.
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Wage Dispersion Between and Within Plants: Sweden 1985-2000 (with Per-Anders Edin and Oskar Nordström Skans). In E Lazear and K Shaw (eds), An International Comparison of the Structure of Wages, University of Chicago Press 2008.
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Monetary Policy and Swedish Unemployment Fluctuations (with Annika Alexius). Economics E-Journal 2008-4.
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Estimating Dynamic Income Responses to Tax Reform (with Martin Söderström), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (Contributions), vol 10, Issue 1, 2011.
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The Swedish Unemployment Experience. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Spring 2009.
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Vacancy Referrals, Job Search, and the Duration of Unemployment: A Randomized Experiment (with Per Engström and Patrik Hesselius). Working Paper 2009:1, Department of Economics, Uppsala University.
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Family Job Search, Wage Bargaining, and Optimal Unemployment Insurance (with Susanne Ek), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (Contributions), vol 10, Issue 1, 2010.
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Part-time Unemployment and Optimal Unemployment Insurance (with Susanne Ek), Working Paper 2011:4, Department of Economics, Uppsala University.
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