significant changes in the Finnish labor market. The study finds that in-school work experience increases graduates' earnings at … the beginning of the career, but there are no statistically significant persistent effects on employment or earnings after …

of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant … emigration and its consequences for measures of assimilation. Large fractions of the immigrants leave the host country shortly … who leave. This creates the impression that immigrants are much more likely to emigrate than political ones. …

of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant … emigration and its consequences for measures of assimilation. Large fractions of the immigrants leave the host country shortly … who leave. This creates the impression that immigrants are much more likely to emigrate than political ones. …

This paper estimates the effects on earnings of “gap years” between high school and university enrollment. The effect … is estimated by means of standard earnings functions augmented to account for gap years and a rich set of control … non-trivial earnings penalty. The main source of the persistent penalty appears to be the loss of work experience after …

Using a large longitudinal data set, we study the effects of increased trade on earnings and mobility in the Swedish … labor market in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Earnings respond significantly to changes in industry sales, whether … generated by domestic market forces or international trade: Swedish exports (imports) raise (lower) annual earnings, but changes …

This paper utilizes information on cognitive ability at age ten and earnings information from age 20 to 65 to estimate …’s choices of schooling. We find that most of the unconditional return to early cognitive ability goes through educational choice …

persistent and transitory earnings among men with high-school and college degrees. Analyses of inequality over the life cycle … reveal that experience-variance profiles of persistent earnings are very similar across the two education groups and also … consistent with standard human capital models of on-the-job training. Transitory earnings shocks display a marked U …

years become available, this information will be added to the data set. LINDA also includes a specific sample of immigrants …