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Searching for Optimal Inequality/Incentives
Björklund, Anders - 2008
This paper examines the evolution of economic inequality in Sweden before, during and after the major macro … buttressed disposable income for those with low income, and despite the rise in inequality, Sweden remained one of the most … low to explain that Sweden moved to the top of the league tables in knowledge intensive activities. Our analysis of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464632
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The Long-term Consequences of Teacher Discretion in Grading of High-stakes Tests
Diamond, Rebecca - 2016
We examine the long-term consequences of teacher discretion in grading of high-stakes tests. Bunching in Swedish math test score distributions reveal that teachers inflate students who have "a bad test day," but do not to discriminate based on immigrant status or gender. By developing a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456468
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How large are returns to schooling? Hint : Money isn't everything
Oreopoulos, Philip - 2009
This paper explores the many avenues by which schooling affects lifetime well-being. Experiences and skills acquired in school reverberate throughout life, not just through higher earnings. Schooling also affects the degree one enjoys work and the likelihood of being unemployed. It leads...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463311
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Labor Market Returns and the Evolution of Cognitive Skills : Theory and Evidence
Hermo, Santiago; Päällysaho, Miika M.; Seim, David G.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
data from Sweden. Combining data from exams taken at military enlistment with earnings records from the tax register, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616583
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Immigration and Worker-Firm Matching
Orefice, Gianluca - 2020
The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages. In a labor market characterised by large dispersion of workers' productivity and worker-firm complementarity, high quality firms have strong incentives to screen for the quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482041
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Structural and Cyclical Forces in the Labor Market During the Great Recession : Cross-Country Evidence
Sala, Luca - 2012
price and wage rigidities to study four countries (the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, and Germany) during the financial crisis and … factors were also important in the U.K., but less so in Sweden and Germany. Reduced matching efficiency was considerably less … important in the U.K. and Sweden than in the U.S., but matching efficiency improved in Germany, helping to keep unemployment low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460226
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School inputs, household substitution, and test scores
Das, Jishnu (contributor) - 2011
"Empirical studies of the relationship between school inputs and test scores typically do not account for the fact that households will respond to changes in school inputs. We present a dynamic household optimization model relating test scores to school and household inputs, and test its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394918
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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?
Beaudry, Paul - 2000
Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while the education composition of employment has evolved in a surprisingly parallel fashion. In this paper, we propose and test an explanation to these conflicting patterns. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471064
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Dropout and Enrollment Trends in the Post-War Period : What Went Wrong in the 1970s?
Card, David - 2000
Over most of the 20th century successive generations of U.S. children had higher enrollment rates and rising levels of completed education. This trend reversed with the baby boom cohorts who attended school in the 1970s, and only resumed in the mid-1980s. Even today, the college entry rate of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471109
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How Hungry is the Selfish Gene?
Case, Anne - 1999
We examine resource allocation in step-households, in the United States and South Africa, to test whether child investments vary according to economic and genetic bonds between parent and child. We used 18 years of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, and compare food expenditure by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471384