Per-Anders Edin

Title

Professor

Areas of interest

• Wage inequality
• Education
• Immigration

Publications and scientific papers

Articles in refereed journals

• Edin P-A  & M Gustavsson (2008) “Time Out of Work and Skill Depreciation”, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, vol 61, p 163-180
• Edin P-A, P Fredriksson & P Lundborg (2004) “Trade, Earnings and Mobility - Swedish Evidence”, Oxford Economic Papers, vol 56, p 231-241
• Edin P-A, P Fredriksson & O Åslund (2004) “Settlement Policies and the Economic Success of Immigrants”, Journal of Population Economics, vol 17, p 133-155
• Edin P-A, P Fredriksson & O Åslund (2003) ”Ethnic Enclaves and the Economic Success of Immigrants – Evidence from a Natural Experiment”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol 118, p 329-357
• Chen P & P-A Edin (2002) “Industry Wage Differentials, Efficiency Wages, and Method of Pay”, Review of Economics and Statistics, vol 84, p 617-631
• Edin P-A & K Richardsson (2002) “Swimming with the Tide: Solidarity Wage Policy and the Gender Earnings Gap”, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, vol 104, p 49-67
• Albrecht J, P-A Edin & S Vroman (2000) “A Cross-Country Comparison of Attitudes Towards Mothers Working and Their Actual Labor Market Experience“, Labour, vol 14, p 591-607
• Edin P-A, R LaLonde & O Åslund (2000) “Emigration of Immigrants and Measures of Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence From Sweden”, Swedish Economic Policy Review, vol 7, p 163-204
• Albrecht J, P-A Edin, M Sundström & S Vroman (1999) “Career Interruptions and Subsequent Earnings: A Reexamination Using Swedish Data“, Journal of Human Resources, vol 34, p 294-311
• Carling K, P-A Edin, A Harkman & B Holmlund (1996) "Unemployment Duration, Unemployment Benefits, and Labor Market Programs in Sweden", Journal of Public Economics, vol 59, p 313-334
• Agell J, L Berg & P-A Edin (1995) "The Swedish Boom to Bust Cycle: Tax Reform, Consumption and Asset Structure", Swedish Economic Policy Review, vol 2, p 271-314
• Edin P-A & A Vredin (1993) "Devaluation Risk in Target Zones: Evidence from the Nordic Countries", Economic Journal, vol 103, p 161-175
• Edin P-A & J Zetterberg (1992) "Inter-Industry Wage Differentials: Evidence from Sweden and a Comparison with the United States", American Economic Review, vol 82, p 1342-1349
• Bergström R & P-A Edin (1992) "Time Aggregation and the Distributional Shape of Unemployment Duration", Journal of Applied Econometrics, vol 7, p 5-30
• Edin P-A & H Ohlsson (1991) "Political Determinants of Budget Deficits: Coalition Effects versus Minority Effects", European Economic Review, vol 35, p 1597-1603
• Edin P-A & P Englund (1991) "Moving Costs and Housing Demand: Are Recent Movers Really in Equilibrium?", Journal of Public Economics, vol 44, p 299-320
• Agell J & P-A Edin (1990) "Marginal Taxes and the Asset Portfolios of Swedish Households", Scandinavian Journal of Economics, vol  92, p 47-64
• Edin P-A (1989) "Unemployment Duration and Competing Risks: Evidence from Sweden", Scandinavian Journal of Economics, vol 91, p 639-653
• Agell J & P-A Edin (1989) "Taxes and Individual Investor Response: Evidence from Swedish Tax Return Data", Public Finance, vol 44, p 183-203

Other selected publications

• Nordström Skans O, P-A Edin & B Holmlund (2008) “Wage Dispersion Between and Within Plants: Sweden 1985 – 2000, forthcoming in E Lazear and K Shaw (eds) An International Comparison of the Structure of Wages, University of Chicago Press
• Björklund A, P-A Edin, B Holmlund & E Wadensjö (2006) “Arbetsmarknaden” (The Labor Market), SNS Förlag, 3rd revised edition
• Björklund A, M Clark, P-A Edin, P Fredriksson & A Krueger (2005) “The Market Comes to Education in Sweden: An Evaluation of Sweden’s Surprising School Reforms”, Russell Sage
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• Björklund A, P-A Edin, P Fredriksson & A Krueger (2003) ”Den svenska skolan – effektiv och jämlik?” (The Swedish School – Efficient and Equalitarian?), Välfärdspolitiska rådets rapport 2003, SNS Förlag
• Edin P-A & O Åslund (2001) “Invandrare på 1990-talets arbetsmarknad” (Immigrants in the Labor Market during the 1990s), in SOU 2001:54 Ofärd I välfärden, Fritzes
• Edin P-A, A Forslund & B Holmlund (2000) “The Swedish Youth Labor Market in Boom and Depression“, in  D Blachflower and R Freeman (eds) Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries, University of Chicago Press
• Edin P-A & R Topel (1997) "Wage Policy and Restructuring: The Swedish Labor Market since 1960", in R Freeman, R Topel and B Swedenborg (eds) The Welfare State in Transition, Univeristy of Chicago Press
• Edin P-A (1996) “Arbetslöshet och anställningsskydd“ (Unemployment and Employment Security), Ekonomisk Debatt, vol 24, p 415-428
• Edin P-A & B Holmlund (1995) "The Swedish Wage Structure: The Rise and Fall of Solidarity Wage Policy?", in R Freeman and L Katz (eds) Differences and Changes in Wage Structures, University of Chicago Press

IFAU-reports and working papers

• Åslund O, P-A Edin, P Fredriksson och H Grönqvist " Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement - evidence from a placement policy", Working paper 2009:20, IFAU
• Edin P-A & J Lagerström (2006) “Blind Dates: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Discrimination”, Working Paper 2006:4, IFAU
• Edin P-A & P Fredriksson (2000) ”LINDA - Longitudinal INdividual DAta for Sweden”, Working Paper 2000:19, Department of Economics, Uppsala University

Referee for journals and books

Economic Journal, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Labour Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and several other journals.

Current research projects

• The Determinants of Teacher Mobility (Reg No 63/10)
• Evaluation of the Stockholm Admission Reform (Reg No 89/02)
• Education and Earnings Inequality in the 1920’s

Current appointments

• Professor of Industrial Relations, Department of Economics, Uppsala University
• Research Economist, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, U.S.A.
• Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London
• Research Fellow, CES Ifo, Munich
• Member (stand-in), The Swedish Labour Court
• Member of the board, Database Infrastructure Committee (DISC), Swedish Research Council