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Does child spacing affect children’s outcomes? Evidence from a Swedish reform

Pettersson-Lidbom, Per; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009

In this paper, we provide evidence of whether child spacing affects the future success of children. As an exogenous …-born mothers, the reform also caused a decrease in educational attainment. Thus, this suggests that the effect of spacing children … closer has a negative impact on children’s future outcomes. We provide additional evidence that this is likely due to the …

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Job practice: an evaluation and a comparison with vocational labour market training programmes

Forslund, Anders; Liljeberg, Linus; von Trott zu Solz, Leah - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2013

We have estimated effects of job practice for participants entering the programme between 1999 and 2006. On average the programme had a moderately sized positive effect for the participants – the expected time to work for the unemployed participants was reduced by around six per cent over a...

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The effect of age-targeted tax credits on retirement behavior

Laun, Lisa - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2012

This paper analyzes the effect of two age-targeted policy initiatives to delay retirement that were simultaneously implemented in Sweden in 2007: an earned income tax credit and a payroll tax credit. Both policies were targeted at workers aged 65 or above at the beginning of the tax year. The...

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Employment effects of a payroll-tax cut - evidence from a regional tax exemption experiment

Korkeamäki, Ossi; Uusitalo, Roope - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2006

In this paper we evaluate the effects of a regional experiment that reduced payroll-taxes by 3–6 percentage points for three years in Northern Finland. We match each firm in the target region with a similar firm in the control region and estimate the effect of the payroll-tax reduction by...

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Ethnic enclaves and the economic success of immigrants - evidence from a natural experiment

Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Åslund, Olof - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2000

Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic "enclaves" within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way...

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Labour market policies, strategies and statistics for people with disabilities: A cross-national comparison

Bergeskog, Anders - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2001

In addition to describing different countries’ labour market policies for people with disabilities, this study attempts to establish some initial benchmarks for comparing national policies in this respect for a number of OECD countries. The report systematically compares the countries in order...

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Ethnic enclaves and welfare cultures - quasi-experimental evidence

Åslund, Olof; Fredriksson, Peter - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2005

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts – the number of individuals of the same ethnicity – and the quality of contacts – welfare use among members of the ethnic...

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How important is access to jobs? Old question - improved answer

Åslund, Olof; Östh, John; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2006

We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee dispersal policy to get exogenous variation in individual locations. Using very detailed data on the exact location of all residences and workplaces in Sweden, we find that having...

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Now and forever? Initial and subsequent location choices of immigrants

Åslund, Olof - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2001

This paper exploits a natural experiment to study the influence of regional factors on initial and subsequent location choices among immigrants. The results suggest that immigrants to Sweden are attracted to regions with high representation from the individual’s birth country and large overall...

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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities

Grönqvist, Erik; Öckert, Björn; Vlachos, Jonas - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2010

We study the intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities between parents and sons using … parents’ cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. …

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