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Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job? This paper addresses that question using the 1991 wave of the Level of Living Survey. The results suggest that men who experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of...
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This paper presents a quantitative analysis of the model developed in Galor and Moav, Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth (2002), in which agents vary genetically in their preference for quality and quantity of children. The simulation produces a pattern of income and population...
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Sweden 1991 to 1999. The analysis indicates a systematic increase in persistent earnings differentials during the 1990s …
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This article uses a matched employer-employee panel data of the Swedish labor market to study immigrant wage assimilation, decomposing the wage catch-up into parts which can be attributed to relative wage growth within and between workplaces and occupations. This study shows that failing to...
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We assess whether the gender gap in authority in Sweden has changed during the period 1968–2000, and investigate to …
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We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate the effects of prolonged parental leave on children's...
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data from Sweden, we analyse transcripts from adult education for the period 1979-2004 and annual earnings 1982-2004. We … exit from the workforce is assessed by non-parametric estimation of survival rates in the labour force. The results …
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model using linked employeremployee data for Sweden from 1985 to 2015. By drawing on detailed firm financials data, we show … secular increase in firm-year pay dispersion in Sweden since 1985 is accounted for by greater persistence of firm pay among …
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This study investigates the importance of gender and ethnic interactions among teachers and students for school … comprehensive national tests. The analysis is based on data on grade 9 students (age 16) from Sweden. I find that a student is … likely to obtain better test scores in Mathematics, when the share of teachers of the same gender as the student increases …
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of grade 9 students (16 years old). I examine whether there are systematic differences correlated with gender and ethnic …
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