The paper analyzes the relationship between career path characteristics of civil servants and their career success. Following a description of the institutional setting and some qualitative evidence on typical paths to the top, we use data that follows the careers of all Swedish civil servants...

We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent’s schooling on child’s schooling, and conclude that estimates differ across studies. We then consider three explanations for why this is: (a) idiosyncratic differences in data sets; (b) differences in remaining...

Am 30. April 2004 veranstaltete das AMS Österreich in Kooperation mit der Gewerkschaft der Privatangestellten (GPA-Interessengemeinschaften) eine Fachtagung zum Thema "Qual der Wahl im Info-Dschungel - Möglichkeiten und Spannungsfelder in der Berufs- und Arbeitsmarktorientierung ". Organisator...

The effectiveness of public funds in increasing public employment has long been a question on public and labor economists’ minds. In most federal countries local governments employ large fractions of the working population, meaning that a tool for stimulating local public employment can...

In this paper we investigate the determinants of municipal labour demand in Sweden 1988-1995. Utilising a major grant reform in 1993, through which a switch from mainly targeted to mainly general central government grants occurred, we are able to identify which type of grants that have the...