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We study the importance of the extended family – the dynasty – for the persistence in inequality across generations. We use data including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations. This data structure enables us to identify parents’ siblings and cousins, their spouses, and...
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The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages. In a labor market characterised by large dispersion of workers' productivity and worker-firm complementarity, high quality firms have strong incentives to screen for the quality...
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This paper investigates to what extent unregulated local monopolies attempt not to evoke the introduction of a formal price regulation by conforming to customers' and authorities' expectations. It is argued that utilities can meet expectations by setting prices that imitate neighbours' prices....
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expenditure in Sweden, where mean age at death increased by 1.88 years during the period 1997-2010. Pharmaceutical innovation is … utilization in Sweden, so the cost per life-year gained from the introduction of new drugs was quite low. …
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options, we present evidence from the United States, Chile, Sweden and Croatia that older siblings' college and major choices …
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'), Sweden decided for much lighter restrictions. Empirically, we use novel administrative data on weekly new unemployment and … furlough spells from all 56 regions of the Nordic countries to compare the labor market outcomes of Sweden with the ones of its … neighbors. Our evidence suggests that the labor markets of all countries were severely hit by the pandemic, although Sweden …
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of study, but also an accounting of individuals' next-best alternatives. Our setting is Sweden, where at the end of ninth …
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immigration. We also find that conservative voters in Sweden are more likely to prefer freer trade but higher immigration barriers …
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(high inter-generational mobility). Empirically, the first force is more significant in Sweden. Within a decade, however …
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This paper provides a comprehensive study on how attending a Swedish independent upper secondary school, instead of a public school, affects students’ academic and short-term postsecondary outcomes. We apply two estimation methods to data on upper secondary applicants: 1) A value-added model...
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