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Using employer-employee data covering the whole Swedish economy over a uniquely long time period from 1986 to 2002, we examine how job flows and worker flows have been distributed both on an aggregate level and across educational levels. We find that job and worker flows vary by educational...
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This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three … self-employment and formal salaried jobs, suggesting the existence of barriers to this type of mobility or a strong …
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In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workers may be assortative, meaning that the most productive workers and firms team up. We investigate this with longitudinal population-wide matched employer-emplyee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data...
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Running RIF regressions to decompose wage differences along the distribution, this is the first study documenting that worker-level variation in tasks has played a key role in the widening of the German Native-Foreign Wage Gap. Comparing variation in Individual- vs Occupation-level task measures...
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objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …
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between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and inactivity. The dynamics of these transitions depend … Germany, all demographic cells are almost entirely detached from the cycle. Women are less influenced by the cycle in their re-employment … rate from unemployment to employment. -- Labor force ; unemployment dynamics ; business cycle ; worker heterogeneity …
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parental earnings or fathers' education, or relative to other predictors of child perforÿ­mance. We find no effects on …' mental health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers' education and the amount of … between matÿ­ernal education and school outcomes. …
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This paper utilizes a Swedish alcohol policy experiment conducted in the late 1960s to identify the impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on educational attainments and labor market outcomes. The experiment started in November 1967 and was prematurely discontinued in July 1968 due to a sharp...
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have changed for Swedish men and women born 1945-1962 by documenting changes in education, assortative mating patterns …-professionals, and there appears to be a convergence in the life-choices of women across education groups. Despite these different …
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measured in terms of education, is often regarded as a waste of human capital. Such discussions, however, ignore the imperfect …
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