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Using employer-employee data covering the whole Swedish economy over a uniquely long time period from 1986 to 2002, we examine how job flows and worker flows have been distributed both on an aggregate level and across educational levels. We find that job and worker flows vary by educational...
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This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three … self-employment and formal salaried jobs, suggesting the existence of barriers to this type of mobility or a strong …
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In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workers may be assortative, meaning that the most productive workers and firms team up. We investigate this with longitudinal population-wide matched employer-emplyee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data...
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We use data from the military enlistment for a large representative sample of Swedish men to assess the importance of cognitive and noncognitive ability for labor market outcomes. The measure of noncognitive ability is based on a personal interview conducted by a psychologist. Unlike...
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We use data from the military enlistment for a large representative sample of Swedish men to assess the importance of cognitive and noncognitive ability for labor market outcomes. The measure of noncognitive ability is based on a personal interview conducted by a psychologist. Unlike...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012707297
objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …
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This paper examines the effects of collectively agreed increases in real minimum wages on employment transitions and … relatively fewer hours before being separated. Among the young, however, both employment and hours are negatively affected …. Labour-labour substitution seems to be important, since increases in minimum wages promote employment among workers with …
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This paper examines the effects of collectively agreed increases in real minimum wages on employment transitions and … relatively fewer hours before being separated. Among the young, however, both employment and hours are negatively affected …. Labour-labour substitution seems to be important, since increases in minimum wages promote employment among workers with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104109
In Sweden, as in many other countries, marginal groups tend to be overrepresented in nonstandard employment. A … decomposition of the employment rate of full-time workers on permanent contracts reveals that non-standard employment contributes to … employment figures alone. Our econometric analysis shows that the negative wage premia associated with fixed-term employment are …
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parental earnings or fathers' education, or relative to other predictors of child perforÿ­mance. We find no effects on …' mental health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers' education and the amount of … between matÿ­ernal education and school outcomes. …
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