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From giving birth to paid labor: the effects of adult education for prime-aged mothers

Bergemann, Annette; den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2014

Women without work after childbirth are at risk of losing their connection to the labor market. However, they may participate in adult education programs. We analyze the effect of this on the duration to work and on the wage rate, by applying conditional difference-in-differences approaches. We...

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Job durations with worker and firm specific effects: MCMC estimation with longitudinal employer-employee data

Horny, Guillaume; Mendes, Rute; den Berg, Gerard J van - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009

We study job durations using a multivariate hazard model allowing for workerspecific and firm-specific unobserved determinants. The latter are captured by unobserved heterogeneity terms or random effects, one at the firm level and another at the worker level. This enables us to decompose the...

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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Pinger, Pia R.; Schoch, Johannes - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2012

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...

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The making of a manager: evidence from military officer training

Grönqvist, Erik; Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2015

We show that officer training during the Swedish military service has a strong positive effect on the probability to attain a managerial position later in life. The most intense type of officer training increases the probability of becoming a civilian manager by about 5 percentage points, or 75...

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The determinants of participation in a social program: Evidence from a prototypical job training program

Heckman, James J; Smith, Jeffrey A. - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2003

This paper decomposes the participation process of a prototypical program into eligibility, awareness, application, acceptance and enrollment. With this decomposition, we determine the sources of unequal participation for different groups, and demonstrate that variables often have very different...

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Wage differences between women and men in Sweden - the impact of skill mismatch

Johansson, Mats; Katz, Katarina - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2007

We investigate skill mismatch and its impact on gender differences in wage gap and in returns to education in Sweden 1993 to 2002.Women are more likely to have more formal education than what is normally required for their occupation (overeducation), while men are more likely to have less...

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School choice and segregation: evidence from an admission reform

Söderström, Martin; Uusitalo, Roope - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2005

This paper studies the effects of school choice on segregation. We analyze the effect of a reform in Stockholm that changed the admission system of public upper secondary schools. Before the year 2000, students had priority to the school situated closest to where they lived, but from the fall of...

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The duration of paid parental leave and children’s scholastic performance

Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009

We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate the effects of prolonged parental leave on...

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

Gartell, Marie - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 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 … that unemployment upon graduation has the causal effect of reducing future earnings prospects. …

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Manager impartiality? Worker-firm matching and the gender wage gap

Hensvik, Lena - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2011

This paper examines whether women benefit from working under female management using Swedish matched employer-employee panel data. I account for unobserved heterogeneity among both workers and firms potentially correlated with manager gender. The results show a substantial negative and...

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