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Trade, Earnings, and Mobility - Swedish Evidence
Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Lundborg, Per - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000
Using a large longitudinal data set, we study the effects of increased trade on earnings and mobility in the Swedish … response to changes in the product market appears to be variations in employment. We also examine whether trade has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419200
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The Swedish Youth Labor Market in Boom and Depression
Edin, Per-Anders; Forslund, Anders; Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998
of labor market programs on youth employment. We find that the slump in the 1990s has been associated with dramatic … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … for labor by skill attributable to technological innovation. The employment crisis has been met by an unprecedented …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419214
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Training, Mobility, and Wages: Specific Versus General Human Capital
Garloff, Alfred; Kuckulenz, Anja - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two … ways. First, we examine the correlation between training and mobility. In a second step, we consider wage effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097723
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Is Variation in Hours of Work Driven by Supply or Demand? Evidence from Finnish Manufacturing Industries
Böckerman, Petri; Jäntti, Markus - EconWPA - 2005
This paper uses panel data from 1989 to 1995 on blue-collar workers in Finnish manufacturing industries and their establishments to assess the extent to which hours of work are affected by individual or establishment characteristics - observed as well as unobserved. We argue that recent research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125720
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Job Polarization and Task-Biased Technological Change: Sweden, 1975–2005
Adermon, Adrian; Gustavsson, Magnus - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
-wage jobs. We then use cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of job-specific employment to map out the importance of routine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322948
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Job Polarization and Task-Biased Technological Change: Sweden, 1975–2005
Adermon, Adrian; Gustavsson, Magnus - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
-wage jobs. We then use cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of job-specific employment to map out the importance of routine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322954
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Trade, Earnings, and Mobility - Swedish Evidence.
Edin, P.-A.; Fredriksson, P.; Lundborg, P. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000
Using a large longitudinal data set, we study the effects of increased trade on earnings and mobility in the Swedish … response to changes in the product market appears to be variations in employment. We also examine whether trade has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669598
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Trade, Earnings, and Mobility - Swedish Evidence.
Edin, P.-A.; Fredriksson, P.; Lundborg, P. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000
Using a large longitudinal data set, we study the effects of increased trade on earnings and mobility in the Swedish … response to changes in the product market appears to be variations in employment. We also examine whether trade has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005634561
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Skill wage premia, employment, and cohort effects: are workers in Germany all of the same type?
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill … groups and between those of different age, taking account of the endogeneity of wages and employment. Compared to estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098021
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Assessing Intergenerational Earnings Persistence Among German Workers
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Eisenhauer, Philipp - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
In this study we assess the relationship between father and son earnings among (West) German Workers. To reduce the lifecycle and attenuation bias a novel sampling procedure is developed and applied to the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2006. Our preferred point estimate indicates that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097894