skill level of all low-skilled workers towards the medium level. This paper evaluates the effects of program participation …

participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably employment and annual income, as well as on the labor market equilibrium …

Amongst the active labor market policy programs for the unemployed in Sweden, the vocational employment training … program is the most ambitious and expensive. We analyze its effect on the individual transition rate from unemployment to … training and exit to work. The approach involves the estimation of duration models, and it allows us to quantify the individual …

participation on individual labor market outcomes, notably employment and annual income, as well as on the labor market equilibrium …

reforms increasing instructional time in Swedish primary school. The reforms extended the compulsory years of schooling from 6 … characteristics fixed. With a majority of students receiving only primary schooling, both reforms affected large shares of the … impact between the two reforms, and between males and females. Estimated returns to compulsory schooling are robustly …

Amongst the active labor market policy programs for the unemployed in Sweden, the vocational employment training … program is the most ambitious and expensive. We analyze its effect on the individual transition rate from unemployment to … training and exit to work. The approach involves the estimation of duration models, and it allows us to quantify the individual …

increasing instructional time in Swedish primary school. The reforms extended the annual term length and compulsory schooling by … schooling extension had small (2%) albeit significant effects, which were possibly driven by an increase in post …-compulsory schooling. Both reforms led to increased sorting into occupations with heavy reliance on basic skills. …

increasing instructional time in Swedish primary school. The reforms extended the annual term length and compulsory schooling by … schooling extension had small (2%) albeit significant effects, which were possibly driven by an increase in post …-compulsory schooling. Both reforms led to increased sorting into occupations with heavy reliance on basic skills. …

that age, for cognitive test scores at ages 16 and 18, and for completed education and wages at age 27 to 42. The estimated … effect on wages is much larger than any indirect (imputed) estimate of the wage effect, and is large enough to pass a cost …