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Paths to higher office: Evidence from the Swedish civil service
Brösamle, Klaus J.; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321122
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Family background and the responses to higher SAT scores
Graetz, George; Öckert, Björn; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2020
college choices. Students with high-educated parents change timing, colleges, and fields in ways that appear consistent with … basic economic theory. In contrast, very talented students with low-educated parents react to higher scores by increasing … programs and institutions that they could have attended even with a lower score. This suggests that students with low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229310
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Seeking similarity: How immigrants and natives manage at the labor market
Åslund, Olof; Hensvik, Lena; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009
We show that immigrant managers are substantially more likely to hire immigrants than are native managers. The finding holds when comparing establishments in the same 5-digit industry and location, when comparing different establishments within the same firm, when analyzing establishments that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273958
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Trade, Earnings, and Mobility - Swedish Evidence
Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Lundborg, Per - 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:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321717
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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement: Evidence from a placement policy
Åslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2009
Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273967
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Mind the gap? : Estimating the effects of postponing higher education
Holmlund, Bertil (contributor); Liu, Qian (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003365208
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When strong ties are strong: Networks and youth labor market entry
Kramarz, Francis; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2011
The conditions under which young workers find their first real post-graduation jobs are both very important for the young's future careers and insufficiently known given their public policy implications. To study these conditions, and in particular the role played by networks, we use a Swedish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321108
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The intergenerational causal effect of tax evasion: Evidence from the commuter tax allowance in Austria
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Paetzold, Jörg - 2017
Does tax evasion run in the family? To answer this question, we study the case of the commuter tax allowance in Austria. This allowance is designed as a step function of the distance between the residence and the workplace, creating sharp discontinuities at each bracket threshold. The distance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663282
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Individual consequences of occupational decline
Edin, Per-Anders; Evans, Tiernan; Graetz, Georg; … - 2019
We propose and implement a new method to estimate treatment effects in settings where individuals need to be in a certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the outcome of interest is realized after the individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388860
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Family background and the responses to higher SAT scores
Graetz, Georg; Nordström Skans, Oskar; Öckert, Björn - 2020
college choices. Students with high-educated parents change timing, colleges, and fields in ways that appear rational and … informed. In contrast, very talented students with low-educated parents react to higher scores by increasing overall enrolment … institutions that they could have attended even with a lower score. This suggests that students with low-educated parents face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388877