Sweden: Selected Issues

December 2, 2015

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Sweden: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2015) accessed September 19, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper examines the labor market and migration in Sweden. Sweden enjoys a broadly well-functioning labor market. The labor force has been expanding at a healthy pace, in part reflecting rising participation including by females. This paper discusses the compositional changes in the labor force, employment, and unemployment over the past decade. A brief overview of migration flows, their composition, and their demographic benefits is provided. An assessment of the potential implications of the projected increase in migration for unemployment is done. The features of Sweden’s labor market that contribute to the higher unemployment rates of the lower skilled and foreign-born are also outlined.

Subject: Employment, Housing, Housing prices, Labor, Labor markets, Migration, National accounts, Population and demographics, Prices, Unemployment

Keywords: CR, Employment, Employment rate, Europe, Global, House price, Housing, Housing prices, ISCR, Labor market, Labor markets, Migration, Supply constraint, Supply elasticity, Wage, Wage subsidy

Publication Details

Pages:

34
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2015/330
Stock No:

1SWEEA2015002
ISBN:

9781513524368
ISSN:

1934-7685

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