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Migration and Regional Sorting of Skills
Tano, Sofia - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014
migration decision. In addition, we find a positive relationship between the GPA and migrating from regions with lower per … tend to stay in more densely populated regions, suggesting a clustering of human capital vis-à-vis school grades. <p> Paper … [III] estimates the relationship between migration across labour market regions and the subsequent changes in earnings by …
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Hedonic Prices, Economic Growth, and Spatial Dependence
Sandberg, Krister - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2004
between actors is fundamental for understanding property markets as well as the growth of regions. In both cases, neighbors …
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Back to the Future: Migration, Matching and the Power Couple Phenomenon in Sweden
Tano, Sofia; Westerlund, Olle; Nakosteen, Robert; … - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014
that power couples display a disproportionate tendency to migrate from their regions of origin to large cities. …
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Essays on Temporary Work Agencies and the Economic Analysis of Law
Westéus, Morgan - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014
Paper [I] adds to the theoretical literature on the incentives of Temporary Work Agencies (TWAs). Using a principal-agent model with hidden action to model two main types of contracts between a TWA and a Client Firm (CF), the TWA is shown to potentially act against the best interest of the CF...
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Scenes from a Marriage: Divorce and Financial Behavior
Zetterdahl, Emma - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2015
In this paper, the impact of divorce ­­­on individual financial behavior is empirically examined. Evidence that divorcing individuals increase their saving rates before the divorce is presented. This may be seen as a response of the increase in background risk. After the divorce, negative...
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The Effects of Assortative Mating on Earnings: Human Capital Spillover or Specialization?
Åström, Johanna - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2009
This paper studies how the spouse’s productivity in the labor market affects one’s individual earnings when married. Theoretically, the high productivity of a spouse in a marriage could affect the other spouse’s earnings in two ways: negatively through specialization and division of labor,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008626094
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The Effects of Spousal Education on Individual Earnings – A Study of Married Swedish Couples
Åström, Johanna - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2009
A positive association between spousal education and individual earnings is a common empirical finding (e.g., Benham, 1974 and Rossetti and Tanda, 2000). The two most common explanations for this are sample selection and crossproductivity effects. Can spouses really benefit from each other’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480539
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Twice Chosen: Spouse Matching and Earnings Among Women in First and Second Marriages
Åström, Johanna; Nakosteen, Robert A.; Westerlund, Olle; … - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2009
This study examines spousal matching for females in second-order marriages. It is based on detailed data from longitudinal Swedish population data registers. We aim to follow women who marry, divorce, and subsequently remarry compared with females who marry and stay married over the course of...
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Marriage, Money and Migration
Åström, Johanna - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2009
The thesis consists of a summary and four self-contained papers. Paper [I] examines the effects of interregional migration on gross earnings in married and cohabiting couples. In particular, we examine the link between education level and income gains. We find that pre-migration education level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480542
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Equality of Opportunity, Heterogeneity and Poverty
Nilsson, William - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2005
low income families will have a constrained investment behavior in human capital formation is brought into question as the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005424018