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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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Are the More Educated Receiving More Training? Evidence from Thailand

Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio - 2002

This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off the job, using a unique dataset based on a survey of Thai employees conducted in the summer of 2001. We find a significant and negative relationship between educational...

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Evaluating the causal effects of foreign acquisition on domestic skilled and unskilled wages

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003

This paper investigates the effects of the takeover of a domestic establishment by foreign owners on the domestic target?s development of wages for skilled and unskilled workers. We pay particular attention to identifying the causal effect, using a propensity score matching approach combined...

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International outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the United Kingdom

Hijzen, Alexander; Görg, Holger; Hine, Robert C. - 2004

This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill structure of labour demand in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import-use matrices of input-output tables for manufacturing...

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Receiving Countries' Perspectives: The Case of Sweden

Gerdes, Christer; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2014

Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … rather stable in the years after the crisis in 2008. The main explanation is most likely that the recession in Sweden was … were employed. If the present EMU crisis is spreading to Sweden the result may of course be different. …

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Receiving Countries' Perspectives: The Case of Sweden

Gerdes, Christer; Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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Wages and immigrant occupational composition in Sweden

Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger; Faisal, Sharif - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between immigrant occupational composition and wages in Sweden. Effects of changes …

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From giving birth to paid labor: the effects of adult education for prime-aged mothers

Bergemann, Annette; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2008

Women without work after childbirth are at risk of losing their connection to the labor market. However, they may participate in adult education programs. We analyze the effect of this on the duration to work and on the wage rate, by applying conditional difference-in-differences approaches. We...

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A price for flexibility? The temp agency wage gap in Sweden 1998 - 2008

Andersson Joona, Pernilla; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2012

Temporary agency employment has grown rapidly in Sweden as in many other countries. The sector was deregulated in the …

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Overeducation among immigrants in Sweden: Incidence, wage effects and state-dependence

Andersson Joona, Pernilla; Gupta, Nabanita Datta; … - 2012

The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. In the Swedish context this question is of great policy relevance due to the high levels of refugee migration and inflow of tied movers. Using Swedish register data...

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