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Long-Term Effects of Class Size
Fredriksson, Peter - 2011
This paper evaluates the long-term effects of class size in primary school. We use rich administrative data from Sweden …
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Disparities in Social Assistance Receipt between Immigrants and Natives in Sweden
Gustafsson, Björn - 2014
Social assistance receipt among immigrants in relation to receipt among natives in Sweden is investigated. A background … interpreted. Most out-payment for social assistance in Sweden refers to foreign born persons although the category makes up 14 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067085
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If Seebohm Rowntree Had Studied Sweden : How Poverty Changed in the City of Göteborg from 1925 to 2003
Gustafsson, Björn - 2014
This paper investigates the development of poverty in Sweden using micro data derived from tax files for the city of … of present-day Sweden: the dual earner system …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070055
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Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement : Evidence from a Placement Policy
Aslund, Olof - 2009
refugee placement policy which provides exogenous variation in the initial place of residence in Sweden. The main result is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154995
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Social Assistance Receipt among Young Adults Grown Up in Different Neighbourhoods of Metropolitan Sweden
Gustafsson, Björn - 2020
Using large samples of persons born in 1985 we investigate the relationship between characteristics of the neighbourhood where young people lived as adolescents and the probability that they will receive social assistance when aged 19, 20, and 21, for the three Swedish metropolitan regions -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843710
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Top Incomes in Sweden During Three-Quarters of a Century : A Micro Data Approach
Gustafsson, Björn - 2007
This paper aims to throw light on the development of top incomes in Sweden as well as the causes for change. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777265
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Mismatch of Talent : Evidence on Match Quality, Entry Wages, and Job Mobility
Fredriksson, Peter - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002443
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Neighbourhood Child Poverty in Sweden
Gustafsson, Björn - 2010
This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144399
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Economic and Ethnic Polarization Among Children in Sweden's Three Metropolitan Areas
Biterman, Danuta; Gustafsson, Björn; Osterberg, Torun - 2021
metropolitan regions of Sweden by using a relative new operationalization of the neighborhood concept. Neighborhoods are clustered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316681
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Residential Segregation from Generation to Generation : Intergenerational Association in Socio-Spatial Context Among Visible Minorities and the Majority Population in Metropolitan ...
Gustafsson, Björn - 2016
individuals who were born in 1974 and lived in metropolitan Sweden in both 1990 and 2006. During this period, the distribution of … income in Sweden became far more unequal, unemployment rose dramatically, earlier housing policies were dismantled, the share … adults. Several measures indicate that intergenerational persistency in context is lower in metropolitan Sweden than was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995601