Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/109121 
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Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 1031
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Abstract: 
In response to high and enduring youth unemployment, large payroll tax cuts for young workers were implemented in two Swedish reforms in 2007 and 2009. This paper analyses the effects of the reforms on worker outcomes and firm performance in the retail industry, an important employer of young workers. In general, the estimated effects on job accessions, separations, hours and wages, are small. For workers close to the minimum wage the estimates suggest larger, but still modest, effects on the probability of job accession. There is also some evidence on increasing profits in a subsample of firms that employed relatively many young workers before the first reform, with estimated effects commensurate with small behavioural effects of the payroll tax cuts. The conclusion is that reducing payroll taxes is a costly means of improving employment prospects for the young.
Subjects: 
Tax subsidy
Labour costs
Minimum wages
Retail industry
JEL: 
H21
H25
H32
J38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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