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 unemployment
- 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 schoo...
- 2006:15 Screening disability insurance applications
Philip de Jong Maarten Lindeboom Bas van der KlaauwThis paper investigates the effects of stricter screening of disability insuranc...
- 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 se...
- 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-generat...
- 2006:12 Is early learning really more productive? The effect of school starting age on school and labor market performance
Peter Fredriksson Björn ÖckertIn 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 a...
- 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 ...
- 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 payr...
- 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 wor...
- 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 b...
- 2006:16 School choice and student achievement - new evidence on open-enrolment