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Competition, wages and teacher sorting: four lessons learned from a voucher reform

Hensvik, Lena - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010

This paper studies how local school competition affects teacher wages at markets where wages are set via individual wage bargaining. Using regional variation in private school entry generated by a Swedish reform which allowed private schools to enter freely and a comprehensive matched employer...

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Working while enrolled in a university: Does it pay?

Häkkinen, Iida - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2004

Working while studying at university increases the time-to-degree and may interfere with learning, but the acquired work experience may also improve employment opportunities and increase wages after the graduation. This study examines how university students' employment decisions affect their...

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Mind the Gap? Estimating the Effects of Postponing Higher Education

Holmlund, Bertil; Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2006

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 variables using administrative Swedish data. We find that...

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Time Out of Work and Skill Depreciation

Edin, Per-Anders; Gustavsson, Magnus - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2004

This paper investigates the role of skill depreciation in the relationship between work interruptions and subsequent wages. Using a unique longitudinal dataset, the Swedish part of the International Adult Literacy Survey, we are able to analyze changes in literacy skills for individuals as a...

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Job Polarization and Task-Biased Technological Change: Sweden, 1975–2005

Adermon, Adrian; Gustavsson, Magnus - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

This paper investigates the connection between the Swedish wage profile of net job creation and Autor, Levy, and …, Sweden exhibited a pattern of job polarization with expansions of the highest and lowest paid jobs compared to middle …-wage jobs. We then use cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of job-specific employment to map out the importance of routine …

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Job Polarization and Task-Biased Technological Change: Sweden, 1975–2005

Adermon, Adrian; Gustavsson, Magnus - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

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Paths to higher office: evidence from the Swedish Civil Service

Brösamle, Klaus J; Nordström Skans, Oskar - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

The paper analyzes the relationship between career path characteristics of civil servants and their career success. Following a description of the institutional setting and some qualitative evidence on typical paths to the top, we use data that follows the careers of all Swedish civil servants...

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Insider Bargaining Power, Starting Wages, and Involuntary Unemployment

Gottfries, Nils; Sjöström, Tomas - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998

Recent analyses of wage bargaining has emphasized the distinction between insiders and outsiders, yet one typically assumes that insiders and recently hired outsiders are paid the same wage. We consider a model where the starting wage for outsiders may be lower than the insider wage, but...

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Changes in Educational Wage Premiums in Sweden: 1992-2001

Gustavsson, Magnus - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2004

This paper investigates changes in educational wage differentials in Sweden between 1992 and 2001 and places them in a longer-term perspective. The university wage premium has increased noticeably between 1992 and 2001 while the gymnasium wage premium has been constant. These results, together...

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Trade, Earnings, and Mobility - Swedish Evidence

Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Lundborg, Per - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000

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:...

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