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Social Identity, Education and Tax Policy
Aronsson, Thomas; Heidrich, Stefanie; Wikström, Magnus - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014
categories, in which norms are formed and education effort choices partly depend on these norms. Optimal tax policy is analyzed …
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Back to the Future: Migration, Matching and the Power Couple Phenomenon in Sweden
Tano, Sofia; Westerlund, Olle; Nakosteen, Robert; … - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014
schooling. Other factors such as parental education and family income also play a role. In addition, there appear to be regional …
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The Effects of Spousal Education on Individual Earnings – A Study of Married Swedish Couples
Åström, Johanna - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2009
A positive association between spousal education and individual earnings is a common empirical finding (e.g., Benham …’s education level and use a rich data set that includes observations of individuals when they are single and when they are married …. The results support the cross-productivity hypothesis for both males and females. Furthermore, couples with education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480539
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Marriage, Money and Migration
Åström, Johanna - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2009
migration on gross earnings in married and cohabiting couples. In particular, we examine the link between education level and … income gains. We find that pre-migration education level is a key determinant of migration and economic outcomes and is also … income gain from migration in absolute terms. Paper [II] analyzes the effect of the spouse’s education on individual earnings …
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Socioeconomic Status and Sickness Absence - What do twins tell us about causality?
Nilsson, William - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2006
The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate causal effects between socioeconomic status and absence from the workplace due to sickness. To be able to conclude that income causally affects health it is important to control for both reverse causality and unobserved heterogeneity. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652029
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Economics without markets. Four papers on the Contingent Valuation and Stated Preference Methods
Vredin Johansson, Maria - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 1999
This thesis consists of four papers. The first two papers deal with the valuation of an endangered species, the African elephant. The third paper is on the assessment of attribute values for work trips. The fourth paper models the number of alternative travel modes for work trips. <p> Paper [I]...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651934
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Increased Energy Efficiency and the Rebound Effect: Effects on consumption and emissions
Brännlund, Runar; Ghalwash, Tarek; Nordström, Jonas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2004
In this paper we examine how the Swedish consumers consumption basket have changed over time, and how this have affected emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), sulphur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxide (NOx). More specifically we examine how exogenous technological progress in terms of an increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005197999
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Energy Taxes as a Signaling Device: An Empirical Analysis of Consumer Preferences
Ghalwash, Tarek - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2004
This paper presents an econometric study dealing with household demand in Sweden. The main objective is to empirically examine the differences in consumer reaction to the introduction of, or the change, in environmental taxes. Main focus is on environmental taxes as a signaling device. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005198021
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Tax or no tax? Preferences for climate policy attributes
Brännlund, Runar; Persson, Lars - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2010
Today, many countries around the world respond to the global warming and its consequences with various policy instruments such as e.g. taxes, subsidies, emission permit trading, regulations and information campaigns. In the economic literature, policy instruments have typically been analyzed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008478922
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Income, Energy Taxation, and the Environment: An Econometric Analysis
Ghalwash, Tarek - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2006
This thesis consists of four papers: two of them deal with the relationship between consumption, energy taxation, and emissions on macro level, and two of them focus on the effects of changes in consumption and income on the environmental quality on a micro level. <p> The main objective of paper...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005424031