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Brännäs, Kurt; Johansson, Per-Olov - 1995

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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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Immigrant Assimilation and Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into or Out-of Welfare

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999

This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel … data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990?s … that immigrants lower their participation rates in welfare with time spent in Sweden. Refugees display substantially higher …

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The Duration of Immigrants? Unemployment Spells: Evidence from Sweden

Hansen, Jörgen - 2000

differ from natives', and if so, how the difference vary with time spent in Sweden and across immigrant cohorts. A unique …

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Occupational Gender Composition and Wages in Sweden

Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger - 2000

We estimate the relationship between wages and occupational gender segregation in Sweden. Because of high wage equality … in Sweden compared to the U.S., we expect a lower wage penalty of job femaleness in Sweden than in the U.S. Our results …

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Poverty Persistence in Sweden

Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger - 2004

This paper analyzes the persistence of poverty in Sweden using a hazard rate model based on multiple spells. The model …

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Characteristics of unemployment dynamics: The chain reaction approach

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting lagged adjustment processes. In the context of...

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Labour market dynamics in Australia: what drives unemployment?

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor - 2009

The debate in Australia on the (constant-output) elasticity of labour demand with respect to wages has wrongly sidelined the role of capital stock as a determinant of employment (Webster, 2003). As far back as 1991, Pissarides had argued that the influence of capital stock on the performance of...

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