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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...

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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 …

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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...

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Mind the gap? : Estimating the effects of postponing higher education

Holmlund, Bertil (contributor); Liu, Qian (contributor); … - 2006

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Enrolment into higher education and changes in repayment obligations of student aid : microeconometric evidence for Germany

Baumgartner, Hans J. (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

We evaluate the effect of the federal students' financial assistance scheme (BAfoeG) on enrolment rates into higher … students had to repay the full loan until 1990. Thereafter, 50 percent of the student aid has been offered as a non …

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Does more generous student aid increase enrolment rates into higher education? : evaluating the German student aid reform of 2001

Baumgartner, Hans J. (contributor); … - 2006

Students from low-income families are eligible to student aid under the federal students' financial assistance scheme … received by eligible students to raise enrolment rates into tertiary education. We view this reform as a 'natural experiment …

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Fiscal competition and the composition of public spending : theory and evidence

Borck, Rainald (contributor); Caliendo, Marco (contributor); … - 2005

In this paper, we consider fiscal competition between jurisdictions. Capital taxes are used to finance a public input and two public goods, one which benefits mobile skilled workers and one which benefits immobile unskilled workers. We derive the jurisdictions' reaction functions for different...

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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