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Not only in Sweden, but also in several international studies, it has been shown that a non-negligible proportion of …: Which factors explain anti-Semitism among secondary school youths in Sweden? Is religious affiliation an important factor in … 2009? Using two unique surveys of secondary school students in Sweden for the years 2003 and 2009, we try to address the …
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Attorneys elected to the US Congress and to US state legislatures are systematically less likely to vote in favor of tort reforms that restrict tort litigation, but more likely to support bills that extend tort law than legislators with a different professional background. This finding is based...
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We analyze the association between inequality and growth across 72 labor market regions in Sweden 1990-2006. Highly …
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before adulthood. We address the question: in Sweden, given its present constellation of social policies and institutions, to …
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This paper evaluates the long-term consequences of parental death on children's cognitive and noncognitive skills, as well as on labor market outcomes. We exploit a large administrative data set covering many Swedish cohorts. We develop new estimation methods to tackle the potential endogeneity...
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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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The aim of this paper is to evaluate the causal effect of foreign acquisition on R&D intensity in targeted domestic firms. We are able to distinguish domestic multinationals and non-multinationals, which allows us to investigate the fear that the change in ownership of domestic to foreign...
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The effectiveness of public funds in increasing public employment has long been a question on public and labor economists' minds. In most federal countries local governments employ large fractions of the working population, meaning that a tool for stimulating local public employment can...
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implementation across Sweden. We first show that the reform reduced crime rates for the generation directly affected by the reform …
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In this paper, we estimate socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of unexpected health shocks on labor market outcomes, using register-based data on the entire population of Swedish workers. We effectively exploit a Difference-in-Difference-in-Differences design, in which we compare the...
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