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Changing World Prices, Women's Wages, and the Fertility Transition: Sweden 1860-1910
Schultz, T. Paul - 1985
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The Family Gap in Pay: Evidence from Seven Industrialized Countries
Harkness, Susan; Waldfogel, Jane - 1999
results from seven countries: Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, Finland, and Sweden. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011652945
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Educational Attainment and Family Gaps in Women's Wages: Evidence from Five Industrialized Countries
Todd, Erin L. - 2001
This paper employs Luxembourg Income Study data for women in five industrialized countries to answer the following questions: Do family gaps in women's wage vary across levels of education? Does educational attainment help to 'insure' a woman against child wage penalties? Cross-national analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011652972
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Wage differences between women and men in Sweden: The impact of skill mismatch
Johansson, Mats; Katz, Katarina - 2006
We investigate skill mismatch and its impact on gender differences in wage gap and in returns to education in Sweden … though it does not alter the result that the estimated returns to education are smaller for women than for men in Sweden. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317955
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Mothers' income recovery after childbearing
Angelov, Nikolay; Karimi, Arizo - 2012
This paper examines the time profile of the effect of fertility on female labour earnings with respect to time since birth. To address endogeneity of fertility to labour income, we use the same-sex instrument (Angrist and Evans, 1998) in a novel way on a panel data set to uncover the time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321131
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Inflation Targeting Is a Success, So Far: 100 Years of Evidence from Swedish Wage Contracts
Fregert, Klas; Jonung, Lars - 2008
Inflation targeting was adopted by several countries, including Sweden, in the 1990s. We evaluate the Swedish inflation … compared to previous regimes adopted in Sweden during the 20th century. Our approach to evaluate inflation targeting is … century of observations, inflation targeting in Sweden is a success – at least so far. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295281
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The boom-bust cycle in Finland and Sweden 1984-1995 in an international perspective
Jonung, Lars; Schuknecht, Ludger; Tujula, Mika - 2005
This paper compares the boom-bust cycle in Finland and Sweden 1984-1995 with the average boom-bust pattern in … 1980s and 1990s. The boom-bust cycle in Finland and Sweden 1984-1995 was driven by financial liberalization and a hard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298327
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Inflation Targeting Is a Success, So Far: 100 Years of Evidence from Swedish Wage Contracts
Jonung, Lars; Fregert, Klas - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-31, pp. 1-25
announced. Inflation targeting has thus reduced macroeconomic uncertainty compared to previous regimes adopted in Sweden … fixed exchange rates. As judged by the reactions of the labor market participants, inflation targeting in Sweden is a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298615
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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