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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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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 …

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Sickness Absence and the Effects of Having a Spouse - Can twins reveal the selection effect?

Nilsson, william - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2006

Individuals that are married are often found to be healthier than singles. A crucial issue is to distinguish if this is due to a <p> selection effect or due to a true protective effect of partnership. The purpose of this study is to distinguish these effects as explanations for a lower risk of...</p>

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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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Young Adults in the Swedish Temporary Agency Sector: Implications of Family Experience

Westéus, Morgan; Lindgren, Urban - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014

A person’s first experience of working life is not the individual’s actual first job, but rather the perception conveyed by their family and other reference groups. Using Swedish register data on young adults (aged 18-34), and controlling for personal characteristics, we find that...

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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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The Role of Unemployment in the Commitment Dissolution Decision among Young Swedes

Norberg-Schönfeldt, Magdalena - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2007

This paper studies the role of unemployment in the dissolution of relationships by applying a two-step estimation method to an extensive data set, which contains information about young Swedish males and females. Unemployment is recognized as endogenous in the separation decision, and the...

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The Phase-Out of the Nuclear Family? Empirical Studies on the Economics and Structure of Modern Swedish Families.

Norberg-Schönfeldt, Magdalena - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2007

This thesis consists of three papers on the economics and structure of Swedish families. Paper [I] examines the …

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