2006
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2006:17
Do labor market flows affect labor-force participation?
Kerstin JohanssonThis study examines if the flow rate from open unemploymentto labor market programs affect the labor-force participation rate.This question is relevant because Swedish labor-force participation is...
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2006:16
School choice and student achievement - new evidence on open-enrolment
This paper studies the effects of open-enrolment on student performance in the context of an admission reform in Stockholm. Before 2000, students had priority to the public upper secondary school situ...
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2006:15
Screening disability insurance applications
Philip de Jong Maarten Lindeboom Bas van der KlaauwThis paper investigates the effects of stricter screening of disability insurance applications. A large-scale experiment was setup where in two of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability i...
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2006:14
High school student's summer jobs and their ensuing labour market achievement
Iris J Y Wang Kenneth Carling Ola NääsThis paper seeks to determine the effect of summer jobs offered by the public sector on high-school students’ labour market achievement by use of quasi-experimental data. Many municipalities in Sweden...
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2006:13
Educational policy and intergenerational income mobility: evidence from the Finnish comprehensive school reform
Sari Pekkala Kerr Tuomas Pekkarinen Roope UusitaloThis paper estimates the effect of a major education reform on the inter-generational income mobility in Finland. The Finnish comprehensive school reform of 1972-1977 replaced the old two-track school...
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2006:12
Is early learning really more productive? The effect of school starting age on school and labor market performance
Peter Fredriksson Björn Öckert
In Sweden, children typically start compulsary school the year they turn seven. Individuals born just before or just after the new year, have about the same date of birth but start school att dif...
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2006:11
Mind the gap? Estimating the effects of postponing higher education
Bertil Holmlund Qian Liu Oskar Nordström SkansThis paper estimates the effects on earnings of “gap years” between high school and university enrollment. The effect is estimated by means of standard earnings functions augmented to account for gap ...
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2006:10
Employment effects of a payroll-tax cut - evidence from a regional tax exemption experiment
Ossi Korkeamäki Roope UusitaloIn this paper we evaluate the effects of a regional experiment that reduced payroll-taxes by 3–6 percentage points for three years in Northern Finland. We match each firm in the target region with a s...
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2006:9
Wage dispersion between and within plants: Sweden 1985-2000
Oskar Nordström Skans Per-Anders Edin Bertil HolmlundThe paper describes the Swedish wage distribution and how it correlates with worker mobility and plant-specific factors. It is well known that wage inequality has increased in Sweden since the mid-198...
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2006:8
How do extended benefits affect unemployment duration? A regression discontinuity approach
Rafael LaliveThis paper studies a program that extends the maximum duration of unemployment bene¯tsfrom 30 weeks to 209 weeks. Interestingly, this program is targeted to individuals aged 50years or older, livi...