COVID-19 and the Swedish Labor Market in 2021, the Second COVID-19 Year

15 Pages Posted: 7 Oct 2022

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Fredrik W. Andersson

Statistics Sweden

Eskil Wadensjo

Stockholm University - Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI); IZA Institute of Labor Economics; Stockholm University Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS)

Abstract

The pandemic has mainly affected the state of health and mortality, but has also had effects on the economy and the labor market. This article reports the development of the total number of employees, their distribution by sectors and regions and the changes in the number of employees for different groups in 2021 compared with 2019 in Sweden. We do not deal with the development of the number and composition of the self-employed. We also do not go into the development of employees' conditions in terms of wages, working hours and working environment. However, we study something that is in focus for the general debate: How was the development of the number of employees and their composition in 2021, "the second year of the pandemic"? The main result is that we find large differences in the development for different groups. The most surprising is the positive development of the number of foreign-born employees.

Keywords: Swedish labor market, COVID-19, employment, migrants

JEL Classification: I15, J15, J21, J23, J61

Suggested Citation

Andersson, Fredrik W. and Wadensjo, Eskil, COVID-19 and the Swedish Labor Market in 2021, the Second COVID-19 Year. IZA Discussion Paper No. 15600, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4238230 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4238230

Fredrik W. Andersson

Statistics Sweden ( email )

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Stockholm
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Eskil Wadensjo (Contact Author)

Stockholm University - Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) ( email )

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SE-106 91 Stockholm
Sweden

IZA Institute of Labor Economics

P.O. Box 7240
Bonn, D-53072
Germany

Stockholm University Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS) ( email )

SE-106 91 Stockholm
Stockholm
Sweden

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