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Earnings dynamics of immigrants and natives in Sweden 1985-2016
Friedrich, Benjamin; Laun, Lisa; Meghir, Costas - In: Quantitative Economics 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1803-1847
This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985-2016. The deep recession in the early 1990s marks a historic turning point with a massive increase in earnings inequality and earnings volatility, and the impact of the recession and the recovery from it lasted for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014537000
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Earnings dynamics of immigrants and natives in Sweden 1985-2016
Friedrich, Benjamin; Laun, Lisa; Meghir, Costas - 2021
This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985- 2016. The deep recession in the early 1990s marks a historic turning point with a massive increase in earnings inequality and earnings volatility, and the impact of the recession and the recovery from it lasted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013394329
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Earnings dynamics of immigrants and natives in Sweden 1985-2016
Friedrich, Benjamin; Laun, Lisa; Meghir, Costas - 2021
This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985- 2016. The deep recession in the early 1990s marks a historic turning point with a massive increase in earnings inequality and earnings volatility, and the impact of the recession and the recovery from it lasted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694689
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Earnings dynamics of immigrants and natives in Sweden 1985-2016
Friedrich, Benjamin; Laun, Lisa; Meghir, Costas - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1803-1847
This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985-2016. The deep recession in the early 1990s marks a historic turning point with a massive increase in earnings inequality and earnings volatility, and the impact of the recession and the recovery from it lasted for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306326
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Migration and informal insurance
Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; … - 2019
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We … in their villages. We explain this finding using a model of endogenous migration and risk sharing. When migration is … risky, the network can facilitate migration by insuring that risk, which in turn crowds-in risk sharing when new migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387278
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Migration and informal insurance
Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; … - 2020
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We … in their villages. Our model of endogenous migration and risk sharing shows that risky and temporary migration … opportunities can induce an improvement in risk sharing enabling profitable migration. Accounting for improved risk sharing, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648056
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Migration and informal insurance
Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; … - 2019 - Current version: July 10, 2019
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We … in their villages. We explain this finding using a model of endogenous migration and risk sharing. When migration is … risky, the network can facilitate migration by insuring that risk, which in turn crowds-in risk sharing when new migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030472
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Migration and informal insurance
Meghir, Costas; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Mommaerts, Corina; … - 2020 - Current version: August 22, 2020
Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We … in their villages. Our model of endogenous migration and risk sharing shows that risky and temporary migration … opportunities can induce an improvement in risk sharing enabling profitable migration. Accounting for improved risk sharing, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012433427
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Wages, experience and training of women over the lifecycle
Blundell, Richard W.; Goll, David; Dias, Mónica Costa; … - 2019
We investigate the role of training in reducing the gender wage gap using the UK-BHPS which contains detailed records of training. Using policy changes over an 18 year period we identify the impact of training and work experience on wages, earnings and employment. Based on a lifecycle model and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012003766
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Educational reform, ability and family background
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten - 2004
In this paper we evaluate the impact of a major school reform, that took place in the 1950s in Sweden, on educational attainment and earnings. The reform, which has many common elements with reforms in other European countries including the UK, consisted of increasing compulsor schooling,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293084