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2010
Marie Gartell
,
Ann-Christine Jans
and
Helena Persson
, "The importance of education for the reallocation of labor: evidence from Swedish linked employer-employee data 1986-2002",
Labour Economics, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 206-214
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Working paper 2007:14
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2009
Olof Åslund
and
Oskar Nordström Skans
, "Measuring conditional segregation: method",
Journal of Population Economics 2009, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 971-981
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Working paper 2005:12
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Olof Åslund
and
Peter Fredriksson
, " Ethnic enclaves and welfare cultures - quasi-experimental evidence",
Journal of Human Resources 2009, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 798-825
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Working paper 2005:8
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2008
Åsa Ahlin
and
Eva Mörk
, "Effects of decentralization on school resources",
Economics of Education Review, vol. 23, no. 3, pp 276-284
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Working paper 2005:5
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Annika Alexius
and
Bertil Holmlund
, "Monetary policy and Swedish unemployment fluctuations",
Economics: The Open-Acess, Open Assessment E-Journal, vol. 2, no. 4
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Working paper 2008:5
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Per-Anders Edin
and
Magnus Gustavsson
, "Time out of work and skill depreciation",
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 169-180
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Working paper 2005:21
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Thomas Ericson
, "The effects of wage compression on training: Swedish empirical evidence",
Swedish empirical evidence, Applied Economics Letters, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 165-169
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Working paper 2004:15
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Peter Fredriksson
and
Per Johansson
, "Program evaluation and random program starts",
Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 435-445
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Working paper 2003:1
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Peter Fredriksson
and
Björn Öckert
, "Resources and student achievement - evidence from a Swedish policy reform",
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, vol. 110, pp. 277-296
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Working paper 2007:26
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Bertil Holmlund
,
Qian Liu
and
Oskar Nordström Skans
, "Mind the gap? Estimating the effects of postponing higher education",
Oxford Economic Papers, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 683-710
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Working paper 2006:11
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Rafael Lalive
, "How do extended benefits affect unemployment duration? A regression discontinuity approach",
Journal of Econometrics, vol. 142, no. 2, pp. 785-806
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Working paper 2006:8
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Erik Mellander
and
Sofia Sandgren-Massih
, "Proxying ability by family background in returns to schooling estimations is generally a bad idea",
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, vol. 110, no. 4, pp. 853-875
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Working paper 2008:22
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Barbara Sianesi
, "Differential effects of Swedish active labour market programmes for unemployed adults during the 1990s",
Labour Economics, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 370-499
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Working paper 2002:5
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Ann Valentin Kvist
and
Jan-Eric Gustafsson
, "The relation between fluid intelligence and the general factor as a function of cultural background: a test of Cattell's investment theory",
Intelligence , vol. 36, pp. 422-436
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Working paper 2007:23
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Gerard van den Berg
, "Competing risks models",
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2008)
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Working paper 2005:25
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2007
Jonas Agell
and
Helge Bennmarker
, "Wage policy and endogenous wage rigidity: a representative view from the inside",
Labour Economics, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 347-369
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Working paper 2002:12
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Torben M. Andersen
and
Lars Haagen Pedersen
, "Distribution and labour market incentives in the welfare state - Danish experiences",
Swedish Economic Policy Review, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 175-222
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Working paper 2008:10
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Helge Bennmarker
,
Kenneth Carling
and
Bertil Holmlund
, "Do benefit hikes damage job finding? Evidence from Swedish unemployment insurance reforms",
Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 85-120
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Working paper 2005:22
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Jan Boone
,
Peter Fredriksson
,
Bertil Holmlund
and
Jan van Ours
, "Optimal unemployment insurance with monitoring and sanctions",
Economic Journal, vol. 117, no. 518, pp. 399-421
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Working paper 2002:21
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Mike Brewer
, "Welfare reform in the UK: 1997-2007", Swedish Economic Policy Review, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 87-136.
Working paper 2008:12
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Zwi Eckstein
and
Gerard van den Berg
, "Empirical labor search models: A survey",
Journal of Econometrics, vol. 136, no. 2, pp. 531-564
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Working paper 2003:18
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Martin Lundin
, "Does cooperation improve implementation? Central-local government relations in active labour market policy in Sweden",
Policy Studies Journal, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 629-659
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Working paper 2005:2
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Bruce D. Meyer
, "The US earned income tax credit, its effects, and possible reforms", Swedish Economic Policy Review 2007, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 55-85.
Working paper 2008:14
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Robert Moffitt
, "Welfare reform: the US experience", Swedish Economic Policy Review, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 11-54.
Working paper 2008:13
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Anna Nilsson
and
Jonas Agell
, "Crime, unemployment and labor market programs in turbulent times",
Journal of European Economic Association, vol.5, no. 4, pp. 752-775
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Working paper 2003:14
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Per Skedinger
and
Barbro Widerstedt
, "Recruitment to sheltered employment: Evidence from Samhall, a Swedish state-owned company",
International Journal of Manpower, vol. 28, iss. 8, pp. 694-714
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Working paper 2003:11
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Jane Waldfogel
, "Welfare reforms and child well-being in the US and UK", Swedish Economic Policy Review, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 137-173.
Working paper 2008:11
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Olof Åslund
and
Dan-Olof Rooth
, "Do when and where matter? Initial labor market conditions and immigrant earnings",
Economic Journal, vol. 117, no. 518, pp. 422-448
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Working paper 2003:7
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2006
Eva Cantoni
and
Xavier de Luna
, "Non-parametric adjustment for covariates when estimating a treatment effect",
Journal of Non Parametric Statistics, vol. 18, iss. 2, pp. 227-244
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Working paper 2004:9
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Xavier de Luna
and
Per Johansson
, "Testing exogeneity under distributional misspecification",
Journal of Econometrics, vol. 132, iss. 2, pp. 527-543
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Working paper 2001:9
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Matz Dahlberg
and
Eva Mörk
, "Public employment and the double role of bureaucrats",
Public Choice, vol. 126, no. 3-4, pp. 381-404
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Working paper 2004:11
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Stefan Eriksson
, "Skill loss, ranking of job applicants, and the dynamics of unemployment",
German Economic Review, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 265-296
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Working paper 2001:4
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Stefan Eriksson
and
Jonas Lagerström
, "Competition between employed and unemployed job applicants: Swedish evidence",
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, vol. 108, iss. 3, pp. 373-396
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Working paper 2004:2
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Peter Fredriksson
and
Bertil Holmlund
, "Improving incentives in unemployment insurance: A review of recent research",
Journal of Economic Surveys, vol. 20, iss. 3, pp. 357-386
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Working paper 2003:5
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Peter Fredriksson
and
Bertil Holmlund
, "Optimal unemployment insurance design: time limits, monitoring, or workfare?",
International Tax and Public Finance, vol. 13, iss. 5, pp. 565-585
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Working paper 2005:13
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Martin Lundin
and
Per Skedinger
, "Decentralisation of active labour market policy: The case of Swedish local employment service committees",
Journal of Public Economics, vol. 90, no. 4-5, pp. 775-798
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Working paper 2000:6
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Per Skedinger
, "Minimum wages and employment in Swedish hotels and restaurants",
Labour Economics, vol. 13, iss. 2, pp. 259-290
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Working paper 2002:18
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2005
Kenneth Carling
and
Laura Hartman (Larsson)
, "Does early intervention help the unemployed youth?",
Labour Economics 2005, vol. 12, iss. 3, pp. 301-319
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Working paper 2002:10
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Pedro Carneiro
,
James Joseph "Jim" Heckman
and
Dimitriy V Masterov
, "Labor market discrimination and racial differences in premarket factors",
Journal of Law and Economics 2005, vol. 48, iss. 1, pp. 1-39
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Working paper 2005:3
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Flavio Cunha
,
James Joseph "Jim" Heckman
and
Salvador Navarro-Lozano
, "Separating uncertainty from heterogeneity in life cycle earnings",
Oxford Economic Papers 2005, vol. 57, iss. 2, pp. 191-261
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Working paper 2005:6
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Matz Dahlberg
and
Anders Forslund
, "Direct displacement effects of labour market programmes: the case of Sweden",
Scandinavian Journal of Economics 2005, vol. 107, iss. 3, pp. 475-494
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Working paper 1999:7
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Anders Forslund
and
Ann-Sofie Kolm
, "Active labour market policies and real-wage determination - Swedish evidence", Research in Labor Economics 2005, vol. 23, pp. 381-441.
Working paper 2000:7
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Per Johansson
and
Mårten Palme
, "Moral hazard and sickness insurance: Empirical evidence from a sickness insurance reform in Sweden",
Journal of Public Economics 2005, vol. 89, iss. 9-10, pp. 1879-1890
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Working paper 2004:10
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Oskar Nordström Skans
, "Age effects in Swedish local labour markets",
Economics Letters 2005, vol. 86, iss. 3, pp. 419-426
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Working paper 2002:11
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Olof Åslund
, "Shifting attitudes and the labor market of minorities: Swedish experiences after 9-11",
Journal of Population Economics 2005, vol. 18, iss. 4, pp. 603-629
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Working paper 2004:16
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Olof Åslund
and
Dan-Olof Rooth
, "Now and forever? Initial and subsequent location choices of immigrants",
Regional Science and Urban Economics, vol. 35, iss. 2, pp. 141-165
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Working paper 2001:11
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2004
Jaap H. Abbring
and
Gerard van den Berg
, "Dynamically assigned treatments: duration models, binary treatment models, and panel data models",
Empirical Economics 2004, vol. 29, pp. 5-20
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Working paper 2002:20
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Thomas Andrén
and
Björn Gustafsson
, "Income effects from labor market training programs in Sweden during the 80's and 90's",
International Journal of Manpower 2004, vol. 25, iss. 8, pp. 688-713
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Working paper 2002:15
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Pål Bergström
,
Matz Dahlberg
and
Eva Mörk
, "Municipal labour demand",
Labour Economics 2004, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 315-334
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Working paper 1998:1
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Kenneth Carling
and
Katarina Richardson
, "The relative efficiency of labor market programs: Swedish experience from the 1990's",
Labour Economics 2004, vol. 11, iss. 3, pp. 335-354
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Working paper 2001:2
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Karsten Hansen
,
James Joseph "Jim" Heckman
and
Kathleen Mullen
, "The effect of schooling and ability on achievement test scores",
Journal of Econometrics 2004, vol. 121, iss. 1-2, pp. 39-98
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Working paper 2003:13
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James Joseph "Jim" Heckman
and
Xuesong Li
, "Selection bias, comparative advantage and heterogeneous returns to education: Evidence from China in 2000",
Pacific Economic Review, Special issue 2004, vol. 9, iss. 3, pp. 155-171
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Working paper 2003:17
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James Joseph "Jim" Heckman
and
Salvador Navarro-Lozano
, "Using matching, instrumental variables and control functions to estimate economic choice models",
Review of Economics and Statistics 2004, vol. 86, iss. 1, pp. 30-57
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Working paper 2003:4
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James Joseph "Jim" Heckman
and
Jeffrey Smith
, "The determinants of participation in a social program: Evidence from a prototypical job training program",
Journal of Labor Economics 2004, vol. 22, iss. 2, pp. 243-298
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Working paper 2003:10
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Laura Hartman (Larsson)
, "Harmonizing unemployment and sickness insurance: Why (not)?",
Swedish Economic Policy Review, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 151-188
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Working paper 2004:8
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Oskar Nordström Skans
, "The effects of working time reductions on wages, actual hours and equilibrium unemployment",
Labour Economics, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 647-665
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Working paper 2001:8
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Barbara Sianesi
, "An evaluation of the active labour market programmes in Sweden",
Review of Economics and Statistics, vol.86, no. 1, pp. 133-155
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Working paper 2001:5
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2003
Jonas Agell
and
Per Lundborg
, "Survey evidence on wage rigidity and unemployment: Sweden in the 1990s",
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, vol. 105, no. 1, pp. 15-29
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Working paper 1999:2
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Pedro Carneiro
,
Karsten Hansen
and
James Joseph "Jim" Heckman
, "Estimating distributions of treatment effects with an application to the returns to schooling and measurement of the effects of uncertainty on college choice",
International Economic Review, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 361-422
.
Working paper 2003:9
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Per-Anders Edin
,
Peter Fredriksson
and
Olof Åslund
, "Ethnic enclaves and the economic success of immigrants - evidence from a natural experiment",
Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 118, no. 1, pp. 329-357
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Working paper 2000:9
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Markus Frölich
,
Michael Lechner
and
Heidi Steiger
, "Statistically assisted programme selection - International experiences and potential benefits for Switzerland",
Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, vol. 139, no. 3, pp. 311-331
.
Working paper 2004:1
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Laura Hartman (Larsson)
, "Evaluation of Swedish youth labour market programmes",
Journal of Human Resources, vol.38, no. 4, pp. 891-927
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Working paper 2000:1
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Geert Ridder
and
Gerard van den Berg
, "A cross-country comparison of labor market frictions",
Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 224-244
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Working paper 2002:22
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2002
Per-Anders Edin
and
Katarina Richardson
, "Swimming with the tide: solidarity wage policy and the gender earnings gap",
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, vol. 104, no. 1, pp. 49-67
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Working paper 1999:3
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Per Johansson
and
Mårten Palme
, "Assessing the effect of public policy on worker absenteeism",
Journal of Human Resources, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 381-409
.
Working paper 2002:13
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Maarten Lindeboom
and
France Portrait
, "An econometric analysis of the mental-health effects of major events in the life of older individuals",
Health Economics, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 505-520
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Working paper 2002:19
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2001
Åsa Ahlin
and
Eva Mörk
, "Individual demand for local public schooling: Evidence from Swedish survey data",
International Tax and Public Finance 2001, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 331-351
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Working paper 2001:1
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Richard Blundell
and
Costas Meghir
, "Active labour market policy vs employment tax credits: lessons from recent UK reforms",
Swedish Economic Policy Review, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 239-266
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Working paper 2002:1
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Lars Calmfors
,
Anders Forslund
and
Maria Hemström
, "Does active labour market policy work? Lessons from the Swedish experiences", Swedish Economic Policy Review, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 61-124.
Working paper 2002:4
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Kenneth Carling
,
Bertil Holmlund
and
Altin Vejsiu
, "Do benefit cuts boost job-findings? Swedish evidence from the 1990s",
Economic Journal, vol. 111, no. 474, pp. 766-790
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Working paper 1999:8
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Pedro Carneiro
,
Karsten Hansen
and
James Joseph "Jim" Heckman
, "Removing the veil of ignorance in assessing the distributional impacts of social policies",
Swedish Economic Policy Review, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 273-301
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Working paper 2002:2
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Kerstin Johansson
, "Do labor market programs affect labor force participation?",
Swedish Economic Policy Review, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 215-234
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Working paper 2002:3
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Katarina Richardson
and
Gerard van den Berg
, "The effect of vocational employment training on the individual transition rate from unemployment to work",
Swedish Economic Policy Review, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 175-213
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Working paper 2002:8
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John P. Martin
and
David Grubb
, "What works and for whom: a review of OECD countries´ experiences with active labour market policies",
Swedish Economic Policy Review, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 9-56
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Working paper 2001:14
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2000
Johan Bring
and
Kenneth Carling
, "Attrition and misclassification of drop-outs in the analysis of unemployment duration",
Journal of Official Statistics, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 321-330
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Working paper 2001:3
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Kenneth Carling
, "Resistant outlier and the non-Gaussian case",
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, vol. 33, pp. 249-258
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Working paper 2001:7
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