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Can adult education delay retirement from the labour market?
de Luna, Xavier; Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle - 2010
In this paper, we examine whether adult education delays retirement and increases labour force participation among the elderly, a mechanism suggested in the OECD strategy for 'active ageing' and the 'Lisbon strategy' of the EU. Using register data from Sweden, we analyse transcripts from adult...
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Does adult education at upper secondary level influence annual wage earnings?
Stenberg, Anders - 2007
Adult education at upper secondary level (AE) is an integral part of the Swedish educational system. Of the cohort born in 1970, about one third has at some point been registered in AE. This evaluation of AE is the first to use register data on the course credits actually attained. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317933
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Sick of your colleagues' absence?
Hesselius, Patrik; Johansson, Per; Nilsson, Peter - 2009
We utilize a large-scale randomized social experiment to identify how coworkers affect each other's effort as measured by work absence. The experiment altered the work absence incentives for half of all employees living in Göteborg, Sweden. Using administrative data we are able to recover the...
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The effect of employer incentives in social insurance on individual wages
Wikström, Johan - 2009
Several studies have documented that employer incentives, in form of experience rating, co-insurance or deductibles, could decrease the social insurance usage. Such employer incentives may though have unintended side effects, as it gives employers incentives to transfer the costs to their...
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Gender differences in sickness absence and the gender division of family responsibilities
Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per; Lindahl, Erica - 2013
This study investigates possible reasons for the gender difference in sickness absence. We estimate both short- and long-term effects of parenthood in a within-couple analysis based on the timing of parenthood. We find that after entering parenthood, women increase their sickness absence by...
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Can sickness absence be affected by information meetings? Evidence from a social experiment
Johansson, Per; Lindahl, Erica - 2010
During the last decade several empirical studies have stressed the importance of norms and social interactions for explaining sickness absence behavior. In this context public discussions about the intentions of the insurance, and of the rights and duties of the receivers, may be important for...
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Monitoring sickness insurance claimants: Evidence from a social experiment
Hesselius, Patrik; Johansson, Per; Larsson, Laura - 2005
The paper exploits a unique social experiment carried out in 1988 in Sweden to identify the effect of monitoring on … sickness absence. The treatment consists of postponing the first formal point of monitoring during a sickness absence spell, a … sickness absence is found. A heterogeneity analysis reveals that monitoring affects men more than women. …
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Coordination in a Repeated Stochastic Game with Imperfect Monitoring
Gerber, Anke; Hens, Thorsten; Vogt, Bodo - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich>; … - 2006
We explain excess volatility, short-term momentum and long-term reversal of asset prices by a repeated game version of Keynes beauty contest. In every period the players can either place a buy or sell order on the asset market. The actual price movement is determined by average market orders and...
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Fostering food purchase programmes in widespread poverty contexts: Targeting smallholders within the PAA Africa Programme in Niger
de Miranda, Rosana Pereira; Diop, Amadou; Klug, Israel - 2017
With a surface area of 1,267,000 square kilometres, Niger is a vast Sahelian country located in the south of the Sahara … growing crops and raising livestock, with over 80 per cent of the population working in this sector. In Niger, agriculture is …
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School resources, peer inputs, and student outcomes in adult education
Tilley, J. Lucas - 2023
This paper studies a large-scale educational expansion to evaluate whether shocks to school inputs have an impact on the academic achievement of adult education students. I analyze the spillover effects of a Swedish policy that temporarily doubled enrollment in adult education, thus putting...
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