2014
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2014:6
Essays in education and family economics
Krzysztof (Chris) Karbownik
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This thesis consists of five essays and can be divided into two major parts. The first makes use of Swedish data registers to study the teacher labor market. The second brings ...
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2014:5
Some aspects of propensity score-based estimators for causal inference
Ronnie Pingel
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Although most researchers would agree that the question "What is the effect of [...] on [...]?" is generally more interesting than "Are [...] and [...] associated?", traditiona...
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2014:4
Essays on health shocks and social insurance
Martin Nilsson
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Essay I: addresses the relationship between health and socioeconomic status. The purpose of the paper is to investigate whether the, so called...
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2014:3
Empirical essays on wage setting and immigrant labor market opportunities
Tove Eliasson
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This thesis consists of three self-contained essays, all contributing to our understanding of the determinants of individuals’ labor market outcomes. People who enter the...
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2014:2
Impacts of policies, peers and parenthood on labor market outcomes
Arizo Karimi
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This thesis consists of five self-contained, but related, papers covering the relevance of paid parental leave entitlements (Policies), co-workers’ behavior (Peers), and ...
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2014:1
Microeconometric analyses of individual behavior in public welfare systems
Daniel Avdic
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The main theme of this dissertation comprises empirical studies of individual behavior and public policy in the context of a modern welfare state. It consists of four self-cont...