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The wage expectations of European college students

Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001

Expected earnings and expected returns to education are seen by labor economists as a major determinant of educational attainment. In spite of this, the empirical knowledge about expectations and their formation is scarce. In this paper we report the results of the first systematic study of the...

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Trends in the Transitory Variance of Earnings: Evidence from Sweden 1960-1990 and a Comparison with the United States

Gustavsson, Magnus - 2004

I decompose the cross-sectional variance of male annual earnings in Sweden between 1960 and 1990 into permanent and … particular, it is likely that centralized solidarity bargaining in Sweden imposed constraints on earnings instability during the …

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Long term effects of public policy for displaced workers in Sweden - shipyard workers in the West and miners in the North

Ohlsson, Henry; Storrie, Donald - 2007

focus is on the individuals affected by the cutbacks at the LKAB iron ore mines in northern Sweden in 1983 and the closure … of the Uddevalla Shipyard in western Sweden in 1985. These workers not only experienced job loss, but were also the … target group for extraordinary labour market policies. Using register data from Statistics Sweden (labour market status …

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Unemployment and subsequent earnings for Swedish college graduates: A study of scarring effects

Gartell, Marie - 2009

Unemployment immediately upon graduation is associated with substantial and permanent future earnings losses. Even for very short unemployment spells the estimated earnings losses are statistically significant. These results are stable for the inclusion of a rich set of observable control...

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The effect of employer incentives in social insurance on individual wages

Wikström, Johan - 2009

Several studies have documented that employer incentives, in form of experience rating, co-insurance or deductibles, could decrease the social insurance usage. Such employer incentives may though have unintended side effects, as it gives employers incentives to transfer the costs to their...

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Stability of college rankings: A study of relative earnings estimates applying different methods and models on Swedish data

Gartell, Marie - 2009

The ranking of colleges varies both across methods and model specifications. Still, earnings equations tend to be consistent with regard to which colleges that on average are found in the top and bottom half of the earnings distribution. Moreover, there are no systematic differences in the...

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Does adult education at upper secondary level influence annual wage earnings?

Stenberg, Anders - 2007

Adult education at upper secondary level (AE) is an integral part of the Swedish educational system. Of the cohort born in 1970, about one third has at some point been registered in AE. This evaluation of AE is the first to use register data on the course credits actually attained. The results...

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The determinants and consequences of unemployed workers' wage demands

Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - 2010

This paper studies the determinants and labor market consequences of unemployed workers' wage demands using direct data on the workers' actual wage requests. Our results show that most workers want a wage close to what they earned in their previous jobs, and thus much more than they get in...

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