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Dynastic human capital, inequality and intergenerational mobility
Adermon, Adrian; Lindahl, Mikael; Palme, Mårten - 2019
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 the...
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Preterm births and educational disadvantage : heterogeneous effects across families and schools
Baranowska-Rataj, Anna; Barclay, Kieron; Costa-Font, Joan; … - 2019
Using Swedish population register data on cohorts born 1982-1994 (N=1,087,750), we examine the effects of preterm births on school grades using sibling fixed effect models which compare individuals with their non-preterm siblings. We test for heterogeneous effects by degree of prematurity, as...
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Endogenous skill formation and the source country effects of international labor market integration
Egger, Hartmut (contributor);  … - 2007
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Individualism, human capital formation, and labor market success
Hartinger, Katharina; Resnjanskij, Sven; Ruhose, Jens; … - 2021
There is an ongoing debate about the economic effects of individualism. We establish that individualism leads to better educational and labor market outcomes. Using data from the largest international adult skill assessment, we identify the effects of individualism by exploiting variation...
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Wage and employment determination in volatile times : Sweden 1913-1939
Holmlund, Bertil - 2012 - This version: April 18, 2012
The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...
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The turnaround of the Swedish economy : lessons from large business sector reforms
Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2019
How can a country improve the productivity growth in its business sector and reach its growth potential? Sweden during … sector. In the 1990s, Sweden implemented a reform package that ignited a successful reorganization of a business sector that … of Sweden's reforms. We also discuss how the reform experience from a developed country such as Sweden can be useful for …
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Does the tax system encourage too much education?
Alstadsæter, Annette - 2001
This paper provides an efficiency argument in favour of progressive labour income taxation. When the consumer faces a trade-off between investments in financial and human capital, a proportional comprehensive income tax tends to discriminate in favour of human capital investments. This effect is...
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The gender wage gap in developed countries
Kunze, Astrid - 2017
Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends...
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Young and old competing for public welfare services
Borge, Lars-Erik (contributor); Rattsø, Jørn (contributor) - 2008
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Insuring educational risk : opportunities versus income
Schindler, Dirk (contributor); Weigert, Benjamin (contributor) - 2008
We develop a model of education where individuals face educational risk. Successfully entering the skilled labor sector depends on individual effort in education and public resources, but educational risk still causes (income) inequality. We show that an optimal public policy consists of...
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