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Job polarization and task-biased technological change: Sweden, 1975-2005

Adermon, Adrian; Gustavsson, Magnus - 2011

-wage jobs. We then use cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of job-specific employment to map out the importance of routine …

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Private Alternatives and Early Retirement Programs

Eklöf, Matias; Hallberg, Daniel - 2004

This paper describes early retirement option programs in collective agreements in Sweden during the 1990s. We highlight the differences between actual pension benefits and those stipulated in the standard agreements. We find that the individuals frequently face far better options than those...

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Estimating retirement behavior with special early retirement offers

Eklöf, Matias; Hallberg, Daniel - 2006

We model retirement behavior in Sweden during the 1990ies with focus on voluntary early retirement where there is an option for "buy-outs". An employer can offer the employees generous pension programs if the employee agrees on early retirement. Earlier studies have neglected such offers, but in...

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A Description of Routes out of the Labor Force for Workers in Sweden

Hallberg, Daniel - 2003

working time from fulltime to part-time employment. …

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Cohort Effects on Earnings Profiles: Evidence from Sweden

Dahlberg, Susanne; Nahum, Ruth-Aïda - 2003

education levels. Large cohorts have a higher overall earnings level than small cohorts. Cohorts born in an upswing of a boom … have a higher earnings level than cohorts born in a downswing. The effects on return to experience vary across education …

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School tracking and development of cognitive skills

Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope; Kerr, Sari - 2009

school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We estimate the … the scores of students from families where parents had only basic education. …

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The effects of mixed-age classes in Sweden

Johansson, Elly-Ann; Lindahl, Erica - 2008

Mixed-aged classes (MA-classes) are a common phenomenon around the world. In Sweden, these types of classes increased rapidly during the 1980:s and 1990:s. But the scientific evidence of the benefits of MA-classes is not convincing. In this paper, we estimate the effect of attending an MA-class...

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External effects of education on earnings: Swedish evidence using matched employee-establishment data

Isacsson, Gunnar - 2005

This paper provides an empirical investigation of externalities from education in Sweden in an earnings equation … education are identified from the average educational attainment of workers outside the individual’s establishment. The paper … significant external effects of education on earnings in Sweden. …

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Family size and child outcomes: Is there really no trade-off?

Åslund, Olof; Grönqvist, Hans - 2007

Recent empirical work questions the negative relationship between family size and children’s attainments proposed by theoretical work and supported by a large empirical literature. We use twin births as an exogenous source of variation in family size in an unusually rich dataset where it is...

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Study achievement for students with kids

Hallberg, Daniel; Lindh, Thomas; éZamac, Jovan - 2011

diploma, all with respect to parenthood. Few get children while enrolled in higher education, nevertheless one fourth of …

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