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Labor Market Programs, the Discouraged-Worker Effect, and Labor Force Participation
Johansson, Kerstin - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2002
panel data (1986-1998) for Sweden's municipalities. The results indicate that labor market programs have relatively large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644631
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Long term effects of public policy for displaced workers in Sweden – shipyard workers in the West and miners in the North
Ohlsson, Henry; Storrie, Donald - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007
focus is on the individuals affected by the cutbacks at the LKAB iron ore mines in northern Sweden in 1983 and the closure … of the Uddevalla Shipyard in western Sweden in 1985. These workers not only experienced job loss, but were also the … target group for extraordinary labour market policies. Using register data from Statistics Sweden (labour market status …
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For some mothers more than others: how children matter for labour market outcomes when both fertility and female employment are low
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michal - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
We estimate the causal relationship between family size and labour market outcomes for families in low fertility and low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children. Among families with at least one child we identify the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690421
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Labour Supply Responses to Paid Parental Leave
Karimi, Arizo; Lindahl, Erica; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
Women account for the majority of parental leave take-up, which is likely one of the major reasons for the gender gap in income and wages. Consequently, many countries exert effort to promote a more gender equal division of parental leave. Indeed, the last decades have seen an increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690429
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Estimating labour supply elasticities based on cross-country micro data: A bridge between micro and macro estimates?
Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka; Selin, Håkan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013
We utilise repeated cross sections of micro data from several countries, available from the Luxembourg Income Study, LIS, to estimate labour supply elasticities, both at the intensive and extensive margin. The benefit of the data is that it spans over four decades and includes a large number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818677
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For some mothers more than others: how children matter for labour market outcomes when both fertility and female employment are low
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michal - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
We estimate the causal relationship between family size and labour market outcomes for families in low fertility and low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children. Among families with at least one child we identify the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818814
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Tax Policy and Employment: How Does the Swedish System Fare?
Pirttälä, Jukka; Selin, Håkan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
elasticity of taxable income in Sweden. It also presents an overview of Swedish taxation of labour income, offers calculations on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836582
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Labor Supply Prediction when Tax Avoidance Matters.
Agell, J.; Persson; M.; Sacklen; H. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999
We examine how tax avoidance in the form of trade in well-functioning asset markets affects the empirical study of labor supply. We discuss the implications for tax policy analysis, and we show that a failure to account for avoidance responses may lead to huge errors when predicting how tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005479132
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A Decade of Tax and Benefit Reforms in Sweden -Effects on Labour Supply, Welfare and Inequality.
Aronsson, T.; Palme, M. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005479139
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The Hausman-MaCurdy Controversy - Why Do Results Differ Between Studies?
Eklof, M.; Sacklen, H. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1997
The two perhaps most influencial empirical labor supply studies carried out in the US in recent years, Hausman (1981) and MaCurdy, Green & Paarsch (1990), report sharply contradicting labor supply estimates.In this paper we seek to uncover the driving forces behind the seemingly irreconcilable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005638538