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The importance of education for the reallocation of labor: Evidence from Swedish linked employer-employee data 1986 - 2002

Gartell, Marie; Jans, Ann-Christin; Persson, Helena - 2007

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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The Swedish Youth Labor Market in Boom and Depression

Edin, Per-Anders; Forslund, Anders; Holmlund, Bertil - 1998

and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … for labor by skill attributable to technological innovation. The employment crisis has been met by an unprecedented … of labor market programs on youth employment. We find that the slump in the 1990s has been associated with dramatic …

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Income support systems, labour supply incentives and employment: Some cross-country evidence

Forslund, Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - 2009

objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …

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Unemployment invariance

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis", according to which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity and the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous growth...

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The duration of paid parental leave and cildren's scholastic performance

Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009

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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Does a pint day affect your childs pay? The effect of prenatal alcohol exposure on adult outcomes

Nilsson, J. Peter - 2008

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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Trading off or having it all? Completed fertility and mid-career earnings of Swedish men and women

Boschini, Anne; Håkanson, Christina; Rosén, Åsa; … - 2011

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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Income Inequality and Growth: A Panel Study of Swedish Counties 1960-2000

Nahum, Ruth-Aïda - 2005

This paper explores the relationship between income inequality and growth using panel data on Swedish counties from 1960-2000. Compared to standard methods of estimating this relationship yearly regional level data are used, and inequality is allowed to be endogenous. We find a significant...

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On the Causality Between Saving and Growth: Long- and Short-Run Dynamics and Country Heterogeneity

Andersson, Björn - 1999

The temporal interdependence between saving and output has been in focus in a number of recent empirical studies. Results from these studies have compelled some authors to question the traditional notion of a causal chain where saving leads growth through capital accumulation. This paper...

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Greek Debt Crisis "An Introduction to the Economic Effects of Austerity"

Mantalos, Panagiotis - 2015

We trace the reasons for the negative development of Greek government debt from 1980 to 2014 by studying the deficits of the Greek state under the same period. We also see the Greek debt under the different political regimes. We briefly describe the two bailout programs for Greece and finally we...

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