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Do reported attitudes towards Immigrants predict ethnic discrimination?

Carlsson, Magnus; Eriksson, Stefan - 2012

Reported attitudes towards immigrants are sometimes used as a proxy for ethnic discrimination. However, there is little empirical evidence of a link between attitudes and discrimination. In this paper, we use survey data on people's attitudes towards immigrants combined with data on ethnic...

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Early interventions and disability insurance: Experience from a field experiment

Engström, Per; Hägglund, Pathric; Johansson, Per - 2012

This paper estimates the effects of early interventions in the Swedish sickness insurance system. The aim of the interventions is to screen and, further to, rehabilitate sick listed individuals. We find that the early interventions - in contrast to what is expected - increase the inflow into...

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Does privatisation of vocational rehabilitation improve labour market opportunities? Evidence from a field experiment in Sweden

Jönsson, Lisa; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - 2012

This paper analyses if privatisation of vocational rehabilitation can improve labour market opportunities for … rehabilitation. We find no differences in employment rates following rehabilitation between individuals who received rehabilitation … by private and public providers. Also the average cost of rehabilitation was essentially equal for the two types of …

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Early interventions and disability insurance: Experience from a field experiment

Engström, Per; Hägglund, Pathric; Johansson, Per - 2012

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Mental accounting in the housing market

Almenberg, Johan; Karapetyan, Artashes - 2009

We report evidence that salience may have economically significant effects on homeowners' borrowing behavior, through a bias in favour of less salient but more costly loans. We outline a simple model in which some consumers are biased. Under plausible assumptions, the bias may affect prices in...

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Turnover and Price in the Housing Market: Causation, Association or Independence?

Hallberg, Daniel; Johansson, Per - 2002

We give general conditions for the data generating process to facilitate the testing of structural dependence of turnover on the average (or median) price in the homogenous housing market. Furthermore, the implications of aggregation over sub-markets is studied. A plausible explanation of the...

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Location Choice and Employment Decisions: A Comparison of German and Swedish Multinationals

Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Jäckle, Robert; Ekholm, Karolina; … - 2004

Using data for German and Swedish multinational enterprises (MNEs), this paper assesses international employment patterns. It analyzes determinants of location choice and the degree of substitutability of labor across locations. Countries with highly skilled labor forces attract German MNEs, but...

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Monetary Policy and Swedish Unemployment Fluctuations

Alexius, Annika; Holmlund, Bertil - 2007

A widely spread belief among economists is that monetary policy has relatively short-lived effects on real variables such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more...

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Life Course Risks, Mobility Regimes, and Mobility Consequences: A Comparison of Sweden, Germany, and the U.S.

DiPrete, Thomas A. - 2001

Intragenerational mobility has been a central concern in sociology, especially in the latter half of the 20th century. Most of this analysis has proceeded using measures of social position that are functions of an individual's occupation. This approach has been based on two primary...

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Interview with Assar Lindbeck

Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2005

Macroeconomic Dynamics commissioned this interview with Assar Lindbeck for a series of such conversations with economists, starting with Duncan Foley's interview with Wassily Leontief in 1998. Other interviews in the series include Ben McCallum's interview with Robert Lucas (1999), Olivier...

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