Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/316209 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2025:5
Publisher: 
Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), Uppsala
Abstract: 
This paper explores post-pandemic developments and analyses post-COVID matching dynamics in the Nordic labour markets. It also discusses the role of institutions and the policies implemented to address labour market mismatch in the region. The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a recession, with a rapid and sizeable downturn in the Nordic labour markets. They rebounded rapidly, however, and most aggregate measures of labour market performance returned to prepandemic levels in 2021. Employment rates continued to rise and exceeded pre-pandemic levels in the first quarter of 2023. Meanwhile, high vacancy and unemployment rates continued to coexist after the pandemic. However, Sweden is the only Nordic country to show signs, albeit ambiguous ones, of increased labour market mismatch after the pandemic.
Subjects: 
employment
unemployment
labour market matching
active labour market policies
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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