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Skatter, tjänster och sysselsättning : betänkande av Tjänstebeskattningsutredningen
1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000957776
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Measuring the importance of labor market networks
Hellerstein, Judith K.; McInerney, Melissa; Neumark, David - 2008
We specify and implement a test for the importance of network effects in determining the establishments at which people work, using recently-constructed matched employer-employee data at the establishment level. We explicitly measure the importance of network effects for groups broken out by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269364
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Inequality and specialization: the growth of low-skill service jobs in the United States
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009
After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271316
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The growth of low skill service jobs and the polarization of the US labor market
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2012
We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the interaction between consumer preferences, which favor variety over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291446
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2000
, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role – Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262344
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Migration to Sweden from the new EU member states
Wadensjö, Eskil - 2007
Sweden did not apply any transitional rules for migrants coming from the ten new European Union member states in May … 2004. The migration to Sweden from these countries also increased, especially from Poland and the Baltic states, even if … much more even. In this paper the labour market situation is studied for people living in Sweden at the end of 2005 who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268156
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Age at migration and social integration
Åslund, Olof; Böhlmark, Anders; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009
The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the residential market, the labor market, and the marriage market. We use population-wide Swedish data and compare outcomes as adults among siblings arriving at different ages in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269096
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The Dynamics of Immigrant Welfare and Labor Market Behavior
Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2001
This paper analyzes transitions into and out of 3 different labor market states, social assistance, unemployment and employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for endogenous initial condition and unobserved heterogeneity, using a large representative Swedish panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274099
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Gender Differences in Sickness Absence and the Gender Division of Family Responsibilities
Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per-Olov; Lindahl, Erica - 2013
This study investigates possible reasons for the gender difference in sickness absence. We estimate both short- and long-term effects of parenthood in a within-couple analysis based on the timing of parenthood. We find that after entering parenthood, women increase their sickness absence by...
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