Direct displacement e¤ects of labour market programmes: the case of Sweden
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Using a panel of 260 Swedish municipalities over the period 1987-1996, this paper investigates the direct displacement e¤ects of active labour market programmes (ALMPs). Compared to earlier studies on this topic, we have more and better data. From our GMM estimations, we ...nd that (i) there are direct displacement e¤ects from those ALMPs that generate subsidised labour (in the order of approximately 65 percent), but there seems to be no (signi...cant) displacement e¤ects from training, (ii) most ALMPs seem to increase labour force participation, and (iii) the adjustment to the optimal level of employment seems to be sluggish. A consequence of (ii) is that the earlier studies have overstated the displacement e¤ects (since they normalised with the labour force).
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