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The Knowledge Lift : The Swedish Adult Education Program That Aimed to Eliminate Low Worker Skill Levels

Albrecht, James; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Vroman, Susan - 2005

data are based on a number of matched longitudinal administrative data sets covering the full population of Sweden. For the …

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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 …

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The Self-Selection of Migrant Workers Revisited

Yashiv, Eran - 2004

Work of low-skilled migrant workers from developing countries in developed economies is a growing phenomenon and a key political and economic issue. An extensive literature has found (for the most part) that these workers come from the lower part of the skill distribution. This paper revisits...

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Why do low-educated workers invest less in further training?

Fouarge, Didier; Schils, Trudie; Grip, Andries de - 2010

Several studies document the fact that low-educated workers participate less often in further training than high-educated workers. The economic literature suggests that there is no significant difference in employer willingness to train low-educated workers, which leaves the question of why the...

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Family Structure and Child Outcomes in the United States and Sweden

Björklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundström, Marianne - 2004

children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family … children?s outcomes in terms of educational attainment and earnings using data from Sweden and the United States. Comparing the … United States and Sweden is interesting because both family structure and public policy environments in the two countries …

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Endogenous Schooling and the Distribution of the Gender Wage Gap

Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger - 1999

Previous studies on gender wage discrimination have relied on OLS when estimating the wage equations. However, there exists a number of recent studies, devoted to estimating the return to education, that have shown that OLS may produce biased estimates for a number of reasons. Consequently, if...

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Is early learning really more productive? The effect of school starting age on school and labor market performance

Fredriksson, Peter; Öckert, Björn - 2005

In Sweden, children typically start compulsory school the year they turn seven. Hence, individuals born just before or …

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Unionization and the evolution of the wage distribution in Sweden: 1968 to 2000

Albrecht, James; Björklund, Anders; Vroman, Susan - 2009

We examine the evolution of the Swedish wage distribution over the periods 1968-1981 and 1981-2000. The first period was the heyday of the Swedish solidarity wage policy with strongly equalization clauses in the central wage agreements. During the second period, there was more scope for...

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Education-occupation mismatch: is there an income penalty?

Nordin, Martin; Persson, Inga; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2008

penalty for field of education-occupation mismatches for men and women with higher education in Sweden and reveals that the …

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The effect of education policy on crime: An intergenerational perspective

Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - 2011

implementation across Sweden. We first show that the reform reduced crime rates for the generation directly affected by the reform …

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