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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 … also investigates the coherence of the evidence with respect to the idea that educational externalities arise through face … of the basic cross-sectional model. The cross-sectional models suggest, in general, that externalities are positive and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317895
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LINDA - Longitudinal INdividual DAta for Sweden
Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - 2000
This paper presents LINDA - a register-based longitudinal data set for Sweden. LINDA consists of a large panel of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321802
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Portfolio Allocation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from Swedish Household Data
Andersson, Björn - 2001
This paper provides empirical evidence on life-cycle patterns in the asset allocation of Swedish households. Data on household portfolio allocation are collected from the HINK surveys for the period 1982-1992, and portfolio shares of different asset categories are regressed on age, period, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321812
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The gender gap in workplace authority in Sweden 1968 - 2000: A family affair?
Bygren, Magnus; Gähler, Michael - 2007
We assess whether the gender gap in authority in Sweden has changed during the period 1968–2000, and investigate to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317967
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On the role of capital gains in Swedish income inequality
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2011
Realized capital gains are typically disregarded in the study of income inequality. We show that in the case of Sweden … surge in capital gains-driven inequality in Sweden since the 1980s. While there are no evident changes in terms of who earns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321442
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Coordination Failures, Clusters and Microeconomic Interventions
Rodríguez-Clare, Andrés - 2005
This paper discusses coordination failures, their relevance to developing countries, and the circumstances under which they occur, arguing that that clusters can be seen as agglomerations of firms and organizations in related economic activities among which coordination failures are likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327178
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Thick-Market Effects and Churning in the Labor Market: Evidence from U.S. Cities
Bleakley, C. Hoyt; Lin, Jeffrey - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342488
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Overborrowing and systemic externalities in the business cycle
Bianchi, Javier - 2009
Credit constraints that link a private agent’s debt to market-determined prices embody a credit externality that drives a wedge between competitive and constrained socially optimal equilibria, inducing private agents to overborrow. The externality arises because agents fail to internalize the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292300
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Beyond cash: Assessing externality and behaviour effects of non-experimental cash transfers
Ribas, Rafael Perez; Soares, Fábio Veras; Teixeira, … - 2010
In this paper we propose a method to estimate externality effects in cash transfer programmes, even in cases when the benefit is not randomly assigned. Externality is assessed through the decomposition of the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) into participation (direct) effect and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293287
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Coasian payments for agricultural external benefits - an empirical cross-section analysis
Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J - 2005
European Union and national policies in support of rural areas as they internalize positive agricultural externalities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294510