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Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants : lessons from Sweden
Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2024
This paper examines the wage earnings of fully-employed previous refugee immigrants in Sweden. Using administrative employer-employee data from 1990 onwards, about 100,000 refugee immigrants who arrived between 1980 and 1996 and were granted asylum, are compared to a matched sample of...
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Is there an election cycle in public employment? Separating time effects from election year effects
Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva - 2008
Do governments increase public employment in election years? This paper investigates this question by using data from Sweden and Finland, two coun¬tries that are similar in many respects but in which local elections are held at different points in time. We can thereby separate an election...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321590
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Is there an election cycle in public employment? Separating time effects from election year effects
Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva - 2008
Do governments increase public employment in election years? This paper investigates this question by using data from Sweden and Finland, two countries that are similar in many respects but in which local elections are held at different points in time. We can thereby separate an election effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317944
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Exit, Voice, and Political Change : Evidence from Swedish Mass Migration to the United States
Karadja, Mounir - 2020
During the Age of Mass Migration, 30 million Europeans emigrated to the United States. We study the long-term political effects of this large-scale migration episode on origin communities using detailed historical data from Sweden, a major sending country in the period. To instrument for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012855019
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Challenging Varieties of Capitalisms' Account of Business Interests : Neoliberal Think-Tanks, Discourse as a Power Resource and Employers Quest for Liberalization in Germany and Sw...
Kinderman, Daniel P. - 2018
This article contributes to the debate on employer preferences. It challenges varieties of capitalism's argument that manufacturing employers in Coordinated Market Economies (CMEs) will tend to defend non-liberal institutions because of the comparative institutional advantage that they provide....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012934987
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Exit, voice and political change : evidence from Swedish mass migration to the United States
Karadja, Mounir; Prawitz, Erik - 2018
We study the political effects of mass emigration to the United States in the 19th century using data from Sweden. To instrument for total emigration over several decades, we exploit severe local frost shocks that sparked an initial wave of emigration, interacted with within-country travel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011911152
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Forecasting the 2014 Parliamentary Election in Sweden
Sundell, Anders; Lewis-Beck, Michael S. - 2014
unemployment and inflation figures. The model predicts that the incumbent government will receive 49.7 percent of the vote in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014144802
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Estimation in a duration model for evaluating educational programs
Brännäs, Kurt - 2000
found to perform well. Empirical results are presented for total time outside the unemployment state for participants in the … significantly longer times outside the unemployment state. There are strong indications of selection effects. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318601
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Long-Term Unemployment, Social Assistance and Labor Market Policies in Romania
Earle, John S.; Pauna, Catalin - 1999
Long-term unemployment in Romania has grown in both absolute and relative terms in the last few years, leading to … increased expenditures--both absolutely and in relation to unemployment benefits--for the support allowance and social … characteristics of Romanian unemployment and to examine differences across unemployment benefit (UB) and short-term and long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014215638
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Activating Unemployed Workers Works; Experimental Evidence from Denmark
Graversen, Brian Krogh - 2015
activation program. Analyzing data from this experiment we show that activation can be very effective in reducing unemployment …
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