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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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Will I see you at work? Ethnic workplace segregation in Sweden 1985 - 2002

Åslund, Olof; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2005

We study ethnic workplace segregation in Sweden using linked employer-employee data covering the entire working-age Swedish population during 1985–2002. Segregation is measured as overexposure to a particular group, taking into account the distribution of human capital, industry and geography....

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Mismatch of talent: Evidence on match quality, entry wages, and job mobility

Fredriksson, Peter; Hensvik, Lena; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2015

We examine the direct impact of idiosyncratic match quality on entry wages and job mobility using unique data on worker talents matched to job-indicators and individual wages. Tenured workers are clustered in jobs with high job-specific returns to their types of talents. We therefore measure...

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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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