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Swimming with the tide: solidarity wage policy and the gender earnings gap

Edin, Per-Anders; Richardson, Katarina - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of wage compression for the gender wage gap in Sweden during the period 1968-1991. We find that the effects of changes in the wage structure on women's wages have varied over time and have had partly counteracting effects. Changes in industry wage...

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Monitoring job offer decisions, punishments, exit to work, and job quality

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Vikström, Johan - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …

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The threat effect of participation in active labor market programs on job search behavior of migrants in Germany

Bergemann, Annette; Caliendo, Marco; den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2011

Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals’ behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects may differ according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job search behavioral outcomes, such as the reservation wage or...

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Effects of the timing of births on women's earnings - evidence from a natural experiment

Karimi, Arizo - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2014

This paper studies the causal effect of the timing of first birth on highly educated women’s career outcomes using exogenous variation in first birth timing induced by the occurrence of pregnancy loss before first birth. Contrasting previous findings, my results suggest that a one-year delay...

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The spacing of births and women's subsequent earnings - evidence from a natural experiment

Karimi, Arizo - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2014

This paper analyzes the consequences of the spacing of births for women’s subsequent labor income and wages. Spacing births in longer intervals may allow women to re-enter the labor market between childbearing events, thereby avoiding expanded work interruptions and, in turn, reducing the...

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Earned income tax credits, unemployment benefits and wages: empirical evidence from Sweden

Bennmarker, Helge; Calmfors, Lars; Larsson Seim, Anna - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2013

Although there is a large literature on employment effects of earned income tax credits (EITCs) and unemployment …-elasticities in the range 0.2-0.4. This implies that a one percent reduction in the unemployment benefit level or a one percent … increase in the net-of-tax rate is associated with a fall in the before-tax wage of 0.1-0.2 per cent. EITCs and unemployment …

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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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Parental leave and the glass ceiling in Sweden

Albrecht, James; Skogman Thoursie, Peter; Vroman, Susan - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2015

In this paper, we update and extend “Is There a Glass Ceiling in Sweden?” (Albrecht et al. 2003) by documenting the extent to which the gender log wage gap across the distribution in Sweden has changed over the period 1998-2008. We then examine the Swedish glass ceiling in 2008 in more...

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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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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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