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Dynamic Treatment Assignment : The Consequences for Evaluations Using Observational Data

Fredriksson, Peter; Johansson, Per - 2004

This paper discusses the evaluation problem using observational data when the timing of treatment is an outcome of a stochastic process. We show that the duration framework in discrete time provides a fertile ground for effect evaluations. We suggest easy-to-use nonparametric survival function...

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Temporary Employment Agencies : A Route for Immigrants to Enter the Labour Market?

Andersson, Pernilla; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2004

We study immigrants in temporary employment agencies in Sweden using a unique data set that covers all aged 16-64 who … were employed by temporary employment agencies (TEAs) in Sweden in November 1999, with information on their employment …, and women are less overrepresented among those born outside of Sweden. The immigrants are overrepresented among those with …

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Self-Employed Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden : A Way to Economic Self-Reliance?

Andersson, Pernilla; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2004

data-sets to study self-employment among immigrants in Denmark and Sweden. The three main issues covered are 1) if the …

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Other Forms of Employment: Temporary Employment Agencies and Self-Employment

Wadensjö, Eskil; Andersson, Pernilla - 2004

Sweden as an example, but the Swedish experience is not unique. Other countries have similar and in many cases more of those …

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Intergenerational Effects in Sweden : What Can We Learn from Adoption Data?

Lindahl, Mikael; Björklund, Anders; Plug, Erik - 2004

We explore the adoption data approach to estimating causal effects of parental education and income on the same outcomes of their children. Thanks to a data set drawn from Swedish population registers with detailed information on biological background and history of adoptees, we can test basic...

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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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Why Do Self-Employed Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden Have Such Low Incomes?

Andersson, Pernilla; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2004

paper we look at the incomes for the self-employed in Denmark and Sweden. To minimize the problems with unreported income we …

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How Different Are Immigrants? : A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement

Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2004

population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and …

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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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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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