Essays about: "long-term unemployment"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 40 essays containing the words long-term unemployment.

  1. 21. The Effects of Economic Variables on Swedish Stock Market Volatility A GARCH-MIDAS Approach

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Sebastian Kejlberg; [2018]
    Keywords : GARCH; MIDAS; stock market; volatility; macroeconomic; OMXSB; Sweden; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This thesis applies the GARCH-MIDAS model to investigate the effects of macroeconomic variables, sentimental indicators, and financial variables on Swedish stock market volatility for the period January 2002 to December 2016. The GARCH-MIDAS framework allows the incorporation of data at different frequencies into the same model and decomposes volatility into two components. READ MORE

  3. 22. Unemployment benefit generosity in a life-cycle model with endogenous job-serch effort

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : René Karadakic; [2018]
    Keywords : Life-cycle; unemployment insurance; job-search; effort; unemployment benefits; labour market reform;

    Abstract : Unemployment in Austria has been considerably low in the past decades compared to other European countries. Nevertheless, recent increases in the past five years started a controversial discussion about the generous unemployment insurance system in place. READ MORE

  4. 23. Sending an Active Message

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Erik Haking; [2017]
    Keywords : Benefit Sanctions; Street-Level Bureaucracy; Discretion; Unemployment; Activity Support; Social Sciences; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This thesis analyses how social policy in the form of benefit sanctions targeted at the long-term unemployed is made by case workers within the Swedish Public Employment Agency (Arbetsförmedlingen). Since the 1990s, rising unemployment and fiscal pressures on the welfare states made countries more oriented towards policies of “activation”. READ MORE

  5. 24. The Impact of Migration on Natives’ Unemployment Rates : A study on the municipal level in Sweden

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Nationalekonomi

    Author : Carlos Rojas; [2017]
    Keywords : migration; migrants; natives; unemployment; employment; labor supply shock; labor mobility; discrimination; migration; arbetslöshet; arbetsmarknaden;

    Abstract : The following is a study of the impact of migration on unemployment rates for natives in Sweden, on municipal level. A cross sectional data set has been analyzed using multiple linear regressions. READ MORE

  6. 25. Children's uncontrollable behaviour : A qualitative study of how social workers in Heidedal, South Africa works with the issue

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/HHJ, Avd. för beteendevetenskap och socialt arbete

    Author : Emelie Isaksson; Caroline Ståhl; Emma Bertilsson; [2017]
    Keywords : Uncontrollable behaviour; South Africa; children; social work; substance abuse; poverty; Okontrollerbart beteende; Sydafrika; barn; socialt arbete; drogmissbruk; fattigdom;

    Abstract : The preconditions for social work changes rapidly in South Africa and the country  is characterized by pervasive inequality with extremes of wealth and poverty.  Access to employment is difficult in rural areas and this leads to large-scale unemployment and poverty in the country. READ MORE