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The Adult Education Initiative in Sweden –Second Year Effects on Wage Earnings and the Influence on Branch Mobility

Stenberg, Anders - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2003

earnings in 1999 and in 2000 as well as mobility between branches of employment. The estimated effects on wage earnings of the …, the earnings effects of the AEI is relatively more beneficial in 2000 than in 1999. Results on mobility indicate that AEI …

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Kunskapslyftets privatekonomiska effekter – Nybörjare höstterminen 1997

Axelsson, Roger; Westerlund, Olle - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2004

Syftet med denna studie är att uppskatta den privatekonomiska lönsamheten av att ha deltagit i Kunskapslyftet. Med deltagare i Kunskapslyftet avses här personer som studerade under höstterminen 1997 med det särskilda utbildningsbidraget UBS och som avslutade sina studier före årsskiftet...

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Short Run Effects on Wage Earnings of the Adult Education Initiative in Sweden

Stenberg, Anders - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2002

1999 is used as outcome variable. Bias caused by the selection process into programs is dealt with using two separate …

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Does Comprehensive Education Work for the Long-term Unemployed?

Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2004

This paper evaluates the effects of comprehensive adult education on wage earnings of the long-term unemployed, an essentially unexplored issue. We use register data pertaining to a large sample of long-term unemployed persons in Sweden who either enrolled in the comprehensive adult education...

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An Analysis of Immigrants’ Participation in Adult Education in Sweden

Norlin, Erik - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2003

The purpose of this paper is to analyze to what extent different groups of immigrants in Sweden take part in two adult education measures, the Adult Education Initiative (AEI) and Labor Market Training (LMT). A multinomial logit model is estimated using register data. The results show that the...

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Comprehensive Education or Vocational Training for the Unemployed?

Stenberg, Anders - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2005

The Adult Education Initiative (AEI) in Sweden was introduced in the autumn of 1997 and generated a massive expansion of subsidized adult comprehensive education. This paper uses data on a large sample of unemployed persons aged 25 to 55 to evaluate the effects of comprehensive upper secondary...

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An Evaluation of the Adult Education Initiative Relative Labor Market Training

Stenberg, Anders - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2003

1999 to compare the AEI and LMT for individuals that do not continue in education following program completion. Two … study the annual wage earnings of 1999 and 2000 and data on attachment to branches of employment before and after program … on wage earnings tended to be more advantageous for the AEI in 2000 rather than 1999, possibly implying a lag in the …

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Comprehensive Adult Education as a Means of Reducing Unemployment

Lindquist, Torbjörn - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2005

This paper evaluates whether general education is better than traditional vocational training as a means of reducing the time individuals remain in unemployment and the risk for the individual of becoming unemployed. The empirical analysis is built on longitudinal data from Sweden. Postprogram...

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Comprehensive Education for the Unemployed - Evaluating the Effectson Unemployment of the Adult Education Initiative in Sweden (Kunskapslyftet)(Kunskapslyftet)

Stenberg, Anders - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2002

This paper evaluates the effects on unemployment of the Adult Education Initiative (AEI) in Sweden. The AEI offered the unemployed adult education at a compulsory or upper secondary level. The AEI is compared with the vocational training part of Labor Market Training (LMT). The study uses...

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Does Formal Education for Older Workers Increase Earnings? – Analyzing Annual Data Stretching over 25 Years

Stenberg, Anders; de Luna, Xavier; Westerlund, Olle - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2011

Governments in the US, Canada and Europe have expressed an ambition to stimulate education of older. In this paper, we analyze if there are effects on annual earnings of formal education for participants aged 42-55 at the time of enrolment in 1994-1995. The analysis explores longitudinal...

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