2007
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2007:31
Do anonymous job application procedures level the playing field?
Anonymous application procedures (AAP) are increasingly promoted as a way to combat employment discrimination. The idea gets support from theory and experimental evidence, but virtually nothing is kno...Oskar Nordström Skans Olof Åslund
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2007:30
An empirical assessment of assortative matching in the labor market
In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workers may be assortative, meaning that the most productive workers and firms team up. We investigate this with lon...
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2007:29
Effects of work requirements on welfare migration
This study tests for a migration response to the implementationof stricter rules for welfare bene t receipt, in the form of mandatoryparticipation in activation programs for welfare recipients, in...Karin Edmark
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2007:28
The gender gap in workplace authority in Sweden 1968-2000 - a family affair?
We assess whether the gender gap in authority in Sweden has changed during the period 1968–2000, and investigate to what extent family factors are respon-sible for this gap. We find that the gap has n...Magnus Bygren Michael Gähler
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2007:27
Labour market programmes and labour market outcomes: a study of the Swedish active labour market interventions
This paper assesses the impact of Swedish welfare-to-work programmes on labour market performance including wages, labour market status, unemployment duration and future welfare-to-work participation....
Jérôme Adda Mónica Costa Dias Costas Meghir Barbara Sianesi
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2007:26
Resources and student achievement - evidence from a Swedish policy reform
This paper utilizes a policy change to estimate the effect of teacher density on student performance. We find that an increase in teacher density has a positive effect on student achievement. The base...Peter Fredriksson Björn Öckert
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2007:25
Gender and ethnic interactions among teachers and students - evidence from Sweden
This study investigates the importance of gender and ethnic interactions among teachers and students for school performance in Swedish, English and Mathe-matics. School leaving certificates assigned b...
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2007:24
Comparing teachers' assessments and national test results - evidence from Sweden
This study compares results on national tests with teachers’ assessment of student performance, by using Swedish data of grade 9 students (16 years old). I examine whether there are systematic differe...
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2007:23
The relation between fluid intelligence and the general factor as a function of cultural background: a test of Cattell's investment theory
According to Cattell’s (1987) Investment theory individual differences in acquisition of knowledge and skills are partly the result of investment of Fluid Intelligence (Gf) in learning situations dema...Ann Valentin Kvist Jan-Eric Gustafsson
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2007:22
Strategic competition in Swedish local spending on childcare, schooling and care for the elderly
This study tests for strategic competition in public spending onchildcare and primary education, and care for the elderly, using paneldata on Swedish municipalities over 1996-2005. The high degree...Karin Edmark