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The distinction between dictatorial and incentive policy interventions and its implication for IV estimation

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2010

We investigate if, and under which conditions, the distinction between dictatorial and incentive-based policy interventions affects the capacity of Instrument Variable (IV) methods to estimate the relevant treatment effect parameter of an outcome equation. The analysis is set in a non-trivial...

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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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Household Labor Supply and Welfare Participation in Sweden

Flood, Lennart; Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger - 2003

supply among two-parent families in Sweden is quite inelastic. A policy simulation designed to increase labor supply …

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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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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...

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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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Earnings Dispersion, Risk Aversion and Education

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2002

We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but homogeneous with respect to the degree of risk aversion. We...

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