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Estimation of Permanent and Transitory Response Functions in Panels Data : A Dynamic Labor Supply Model
Lillard, Lee A. - 2021
addressed much more directly given the recent availability of panel data featuring repeated observation over extended periods of …
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The Labor Supply Consequences of Having a Boy in China
Wang, Shing-Yi B. - 2019
Combining eight years of panel data with an event study approach, we show that rural Chinese women's labor supply falls …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864140
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Labor Supply Estimates for Public Policy Evaluation
Borjas, George J.; Heckman, James J. - 2021
In recent years, the study of labor supply has occupied the attention of a large number of economists. With the growth in interest in the topic and with the inevitable diversity of economic models and statistical methods proposed by new entrants in the field, the literature has developed its own...
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The Effect of Wealth on Individual and Household Labor Supply : Evidence from Swedish Lotteries
Cesarini, David - 2015
We study the effect of wealth on labor supply using the randomized assignment of monetary prizes in a large sample of Swedish lottery players. We find winning a lottery prize modestly reduces labor earnings, with the reduction being immediate, persistent, and similar by age, education, and sex....
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Pathways to Retirement and the Role of Financial Incentives in Sweden
Johansson, Per - 2014
as well as income taxes in Sweden. We use the option value for staying in the labor force as a measure of economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053851
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The Recent Rise of Labor Force Participation of Older Workers in Sweden
Laun, Lisa - 2018
This paper studies the background to the increase in labor force participation of older workers in Sweden since 2000 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919318
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Tax Reform Evaluation Using Nonparametric Methods : Sweden 1980 - 1991
Blomquist, Soren; Eklof, Matias; Newey, Whitney K. - 2021
This paper evaluates the tax reforms carried out in Sweden between 1980 and 1991. We use a recently developed …
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Social Security, Occupational Pensions, and Retirement in Sweden
Palme, Marten; Svensson, Ingemar - 2021
This paper provides an overview of the Swedish social security system and its impact on individual retirement behavior. First, we give some historical facts, as well as a more detailed description of the current situation, of labor market behavior of older persons. Second, we describe the social...
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An Evaluation of the Swedish Active Labor Market Policy : New and Received Wisdom
Forslund, Anders - 2010
About 3% of GNP is spent on government labor market programs in Sweden, compared to 2% in Germany and less than 0.5% in … the U.S. In Sweden these programs include extensive job training, public sector relief work, recruitment subsidies, youth … training programs have small effects on wages and re-employment in Sweden, but precise inferences are difficult because of …
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New Evidence on Teacher Labor Supply
Engel, Mimi - 2011
Recent evidence on the large variance in teacher effectiveness has spurred renewed interest in teacher labor market policies. A substantial body of prior research documents that more highly qualified teachers tend to work in more advantaged schools, although this literature cannot determine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129221