The functioning of the labour market

Since 2006, most dividends from closely held companies, regulated by the so-called 3:12-rules, have been taxed at a rate of 20%. In 2016–17, there was a political process that many observe...

I denna rapport undersöker vi skillnader i utbildningslängd, sysselsättning och inkomster mellan tre grupper: utrikes födda, inrikes födda med utländsk bakgrund och...

According to a standard Roy model, when the demand for labour in an occupation declines, the utility loss of an incumbent worker is determined by the initial difference between the utility assoc...

A growing literature suggests that outside job offers are an important component of on-the-job wage growth. A standard hypothesis is that the labour market is characterised by a sequence of offe...

It is a well-established fact that children from high-income families tend to have high incomes themselves. However, the knowledge about what explains this intergenerational income correlation i...

Hur väl skyddade är svenska hushåll mot det ekonomiska bortfall som följer efter sjukdom eller ett dödsfall i familjen? Vilka effekter har ett dödsfall på de...

Previous research indicates that the relative income between spouses matters for the division of labour within the household. This project aims at contributing to this literature by taking advan...

This project studies the long-term individual effects of the major economic crisis in the early 1990s in Sweden. We particularly focus on differences in the magnitude of the crisis between diffe...

Although technological advances improve productivity and standards of living, not all workers gain equally. New technologies are likely to have distributional consequences by creating winners an...

This project examines whether the relationship between an employee’s match quality – how well the employee’s skills correspond to the job’s qualification requirements &nd...