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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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Public Employment and the Double Role of Bureaucrats

Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva - 2005

Bureaucrats in the government sector have a double role since they are both suppliers and demanders of public employment; they are publicly employed (supply labor) and they have an important say in deciding the size of the municipal employment (demand labor). In this paper we present and...

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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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Intergovernmental grants and bureaucratic power

Dahlberg, Matz; Lundqvist, Heléne; Mörk, Eva - 2008

In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially have the power to influence decisions in their own favor. It is however difficult to empirically test whether bureaucrats actually are involved in such actions. In this paper we suggest and apply a...

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To work or not to work? Effects of temporary public employment on future employment and benefits

Mörk, Eva; Ottosson, Lillit; Vikman, Ulrika - 2021

We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment in the City of Stockholm. Having access to rich high-quality individual-level administrative data, we apply dynamic inverse probability weighting, proposed by Van den Berg and...

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Public employment and the double role of bureaucrats

Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva - 2004

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Intergovernmental grants and bureaucratic power

Dahlberg, Matz; Lundqvist, Heléne; Mörk, Eva - 2008

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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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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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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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