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Eckstein, Zwi; den Berg, Gerard J van - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2003

This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically analyze labor supply questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor market transitions and durations, wages, and individual characteristics. The starting points of the literature are...

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Proxying ability by family background in returns to schooling estimations is generally a bad idea

Mellander, Erik; Sandgren-Massih, Sofia - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2008

A regression model is considered where earnings are explained by schooling and ability. It is assumed that schooling is measured with error and that there are no data on ability. Regressing earnings on observed schooling then yields an estimate of the return to schooling that is subject to...

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The importance of education for the reallocation of labor: evidence from Swedish linked employer-employee data 1986-2002

Gartell, Marie; Jans, Ann-Christin; Persson, Helena - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2007

Using employer-employee data covering the whole Swedish economy over a uniquely long time period from 1986 to 2002, we examine how job flows and worker flows have been distributed both on an aggregate level and across educational levels. We find that job and worker flows vary by educational...

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Study achievement for students with kids

Hallberg, Daniel; Lindh, Thomas; Žamac, Jovan - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2011

diploma, all with respect to parenthood. Few get children while enrolled in higher education, nevertheless one fourth of …

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Active labour market policy vs employment tax credits: lessons from recent UK reforms

Blundell, Richard; Meghir, Costas - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2002

Many welfare-to-work programs in both North America and Europe are directed at making work pay for the low skilled. This paper identifies two alternative policies that are motivated by this same objective – active labour market programs that involve wage subsidies together with improved job...

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The effect of search frictions on wages

den Berg, Gerard J. van; van Vuuren, Aico - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2003

Labour market theories allowing for search frictions make marked predictions on the effect of the degree of frictions on wages. Often, the effect is predicted to be negative. Despite the popularity of these theories, this has never been tested. We perform tests with matched worker-firm data. The...

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Are boys discriminated in Swedish high schools?

Tyrefors Hinnerich, Björn; Höglin, Erik; Johannesson, … - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2010

Girls typically have higher grades than boys in school and recent research suggests that part of this gender difference may be due to discrimination of boys. We rigorously test this in a field experiment where a random sample of the same tests in the Swedish language is subject to blind and...

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Can political inequalities be educated away? Evidence from a Swedish school reform

Lindgren, Karl-Oskar; Oskarsson, Sven; T Dawes, Christopher - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2014

recruitment. In this study, we examine the effectiveness of one such proposal: the expansion of mass education. More precisely, we …

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Trading off or having it all? Completed fertility and mid-career earnings of Swedish men and women

Boschini, Anne; Håkanson, Christina; Rosén, Åsa; … - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2011

have changed for Swedish men and women born 1945-1962 by documenting changes in education, assortative mating patterns …-professionals, and there appears to be a convergence in the life-choices of women across education groups. Despite these different …

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External effects of education on earnings: Swedish evidence using matched employee-establishment data

Isacsson, Gunnar - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2005

This paper provides an empirical investigation of externalities from education in Sweden in an earnings equation … education are identified from the average educational attainment of workers outside the individual’s establishment. The paper … significant external effects of education on earnings in Sweden. …

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