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Turnover and Price in the Housing Market: Causation, Association or Independence?

Hallberg, Daniel; Johansson, Per - 2002

turnover on the average (or median) price in the homogenous housing market. Furthermore, the implications of aggregation over …

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Virtues of SIN: Effects of an immigrant workplace introduction program

Åslund, Olof; Johansson, Per - 2006

We evaluate an immigrant workplace introduction program aimed at helping individuals considered employable but at the same time expected to experience substantial difficulties in finding work. Using supported employment methods, the SIN program may influence outcomes through several channels. We...

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Sick of your colleagues' absence?

Hesselius, Patrik; Johansson, Per; Nilsson, Peter - 2009

by work absence. The experiment altered the work absence incentives for half of all employees living in Göteborg, Sweden …

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Can sickness absence be affected by information meetings? Evidence from a social experiment

Johansson, Per; Lindahl, Erica - 2010

During the last decade several empirical studies have stressed the importance of norms and social interactions for explaining sickness absence behavior. In this context public discussions about the intentions of the insurance, and of the rights and duties of the receivers, may be important for...

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Social stratification and out-of-school learning

Andersson, Christian; Johansson, Per - 2009

To study effects of out-of-school learning we use data on boarding home pupils who attended elementary public schools in the 1940's. The out-of-school environment at the boarding homes could be considered being more learner friendly than the home environment on average: the pupils at the...

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Health, work capacity and retirement in Sweden

Johansson, Per; Laun, Lisa; Palme, Mårten - 2015

labor market in Sweden since the late 1990s. We investigate whether or not there are potentials, with respect to health and …

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Using internal replication to establish a treatment effect

Johansson, Per - 2006

In many cases assignment to a treatment may affect concomitant variables. I show how a concomitant variable can be used to corroborate evidence from an observational study. In the observational study two types of training programs are compared. One program is part of regular Swedish labor market...

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Are objective, official measures of disability reliable?

Johansson, Per; Skedinger, Per - 2005

The issue considered in this study is whether objective, official reports on disability status are reliable. While there is a rather large literature on the reliability of self-reported disability, evidence regarding objective data is scant. It seems to be a widely held view among researchers...

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Monitoring sickness insurance claimants: Evidence from a social experiment

Hesselius, Patrik; Johansson, Per; Larsson, Laura - 2005

The paper exploits a unique social experiment carried out in 1988 in Sweden to identify the effect of monitoring on …

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Cross-border health and productivity effects of alcohol policies

Johansson, Per; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Verho, Jouko - 2012

cut in the Finnish alcohol tax on mortality, alcohol related illnesses and work absenteeism in Sweden. This tax cut led to … the Finnish border are compared to changes in other parts of northern Sweden. We use register data where micro level data … outcomes. Our results on the effect of the Finnish tax cut on mortality and alcohol-related hospitalisations in Sweden are very …

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