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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021

, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact …

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Parental Investments in Early Life and Child Outcomes Evidence from Swedish Parental Leave Rules

Ginja, Rita - 2017

How do parental resources early in life affect children's health and schooling outcomes? We address this question by exploiting the so-called speed premium (SP) in the Swedish parental leave (PL) system. The SP grants mothers higher PL benefits for the subsequent child without the need to...

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Dynastic Human Capital, Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility

Adermon, Adrian - 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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The Impact of Labor Market Entry Conditions on Initial Job Assignment, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wages

Brunner, Beatrice - 2010

We estimate the effects of labor market entry conditions on wages for male individuals first entering the Austrian labor market between 1978 and 2000. We find a large negative effect of unfavorable entry conditions on starting wages as well as a sizeable negative long-run effect. Specifically,...

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Human Capital Accumulation and Labour Market Equilibrium

Burdett, Ken - 2009

We analyse an equilibrium labour market with on-the-job search and experience effects (where workers learn-by-doing). The analysis yields a standard Mincer wage equation with worker fixed effects and endogenously determined firm fixed effects. It shows that learning-by-doing increases...

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Local Labor Markets and Human Capital Investments

Weinstein, Russell - 2017

I study whether human capital investments are based on local rather than national demand, and whether this is explained by migration or information frictions. I analyze three sector-specific shocks with differential local effects, including the dot-com crash, the 2008 financial crisis, and a...

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Labor Market Search, Informality and Schooling Investments

Bobba, Matteo - 2017

We develop a search and matching model where firms and workers are allowed to form matches (jobs) that can be formal or informal. Workers optimally choose the level of schooling acquired before entering the labor market and whether searching for a job as unemployed or as self-employed. Firms...

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The Labour Market Integration of Refugee and Family Reunion Immigrants : A Comparison of Outcomes in Canada and Sweden

Bevelander, Pieter - 2012

Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the … groups are quite similar in the two host countries, although earnings are higher in Canada than in Sweden …

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Wage and Employment Determination in Volatile Times : Sweden 1913-1939

Holmlund, Bertil - 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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Citizenship, Co-Ethnic Populations and Employment Probabilities of Immigrants in Sweden

Bevelander, Pieter - 2009

Over the last decades, Sweden has liberalized its citizenship policy by reducing the required number of years of … explore the link between citizenship and employment probabilities for immigrants in Sweden, controlling for a range of … for this analysis consists of register data on the whole population of Sweden held by Statistics Sweden for the year 2006 …

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