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of Sweden in 2000, we estimate the effect of education on stock market participation and risky asset holdings. We find …
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Is there evidence that households adjust their asset portfolios just prior to retirement in response to a means-tested public pension? We address this question by estimating a system of asset equations constrained to add up to net worth. We find little evidence that in 2006 healthy households or...
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, gender and education and strongly affect lifecycle wage profiles. The largest effects can be observed for younger cohorts in …
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countries. In the paper, we compare the labour market developments in four countries: Germany, Italy, Poland, and Sweden. There … and Sweden are in contrast with low levels of employment in Italy and Poland. In the latter two countries, there is also a … large gender gap in the labour market participation and employment pathways.Lower employment rates and gender pay gaps, as …
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volume and price volatility. We also find an unexpected gender effect in team composition, manifesting itself in more extreme …
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We exploit a natural experiment in which two professionals compete in a one-stage contest without strategic motives and where one contestant has a clear exogenous psychological momentum advantage over the other in order to estimate the causal effect of psychological momentum on performance. We...
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influence who we marry and our labor market outcomes. This study uses panel data on immigrants and their spouses in Sweden to …
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We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical …
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This study investigates possible reasons for the gender difference in sickness absence. We estimate both short- and …
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This paper explores the consequences of the under-representation of women in top jobs for the overall gender pay gap …. Using administrative annual earnings data from Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, it applies the approach used in the … analysis of earnings inequality in top incomes, as well as reweighting techniques, to the analysis of the gender pay gap. The …
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