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Moving in and out of public geriatric care in Sweden

Hallberg, Daniel; Lagergren, Mårten - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007

very old (75+). We also study excess-mortality conditional on the mode of OAC. Three forms of publicly provided OAC are … mortality among cohabitants with home-help services, while it is higher among cohabitants with special accommodation. Our …

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Income receipt and mortality - Evidence from Swedish public sector employees

Andersson, Elvira; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2014

In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By … using data on variation in pay-days across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example …-week mortality patterns. We find a dramatic increase in mortality on the day salaries arrive. The increase is especially pronounced …

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Timing of death and the repeal of the Swedish inheritance tax

Eliason, Marcus; Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010

Does taxation affect the timing of death? This is an interesting example of how behavior might be affected by economic … incentives. We study how two changes in Swedish inheritance taxation 2003/04 and 2004/05 have affected mortality during the turns …

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Timing of death and the repeal of the Swedish inheritance tax

Eliason, Marcus; Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010

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Program Evaluation and Random Program Starts

Fredriksson, Peter; Johansson, Per - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2002

This paper discusses the evaluation problem using observational data when the timing of treatment is an outcome of a stochastic process. We show that, without additional assumptions, it is not possible to estimate the average treatment effect and treatment on the treated. It is, however,...

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Employment, Mobility, and Active Labor Market Programs

Fredriksson, Peter; Johansson, Per - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2003

Using a unique micro panel data set we investigate whether active labor market programs improve employment prospects and increase mobility in the longer run. We consider two prototype programs: job creation programs and training programs. We find that both programs reduce the chances of finding...

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Does Sick Absence Increase the Risk of Unemployment?

Hesselius, Patrik - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2003

The paper examines whether a worker's sick absence behaviour influences the risk of becoming unemployed. Swedish panel data are used to estimate the relationship between the incidence and duration of sick leave and subsequent unemployment. The results indicate that an increase in the number of...

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Sick of Being Unemployed? Interactions Between Unemployment and Sickness Insurance in Sweden

Larsson, Laura - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2002

This paper examines the incentive effects caused by the interactions between unemployment insurance (UI) and sickness insurance (SI), two important components of Sweden's social insurance system. There are two main topics of interest: how the sickness report rate and the length of the subsequent...

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Bounds On Treatment Effects On Transitions

Ridder, Geert; Vikström, Johan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

This paper considers the definition and identification of treatment effects on conditional transition probabilities. We show that even under sequential random assignment only the instantaneous average treatment effect is point identified. Because treated and control units drop out at different...

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The Relative Efficiency of Active Labour Market Policies: Evidence From a Social Experiment and Non-Parametric Methods

Vikström, Johan; Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

We re-analyze the effects of a Danish active labour market program social experiment, that included a range of sub-treatments, including monitoring, job search assistance and training. Previous studies have shown that the overall effect of the experiment is positive. We apply newly developed...

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