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Social interaction has an effect on our decisions and possibilities, both at school and on the labour market. Interview-based studies show that social contacts work as an important source of information for employers and job seekers and that informal recruitment channels are important in the hiring process. Behaviour among student friends, neighbours, family and colleagues can also create social norms that affect one’s own behaviour in different respects. In order to understand to what extent social environments affect our behaviour and our possibilities at school and in working life, the research carried out in particular deals with:
-how social contacts affect individuals’ abilities to find and get jobs
-how differences in the supply of, and the use of, social networks create employment- and wage differences on the labour market
-how educational choices and school performance are affected by the behaviour of school friends
-how behaviour and norms in the social context (for example among family, colleagues and neighbours) affect individual productivity, sick leave behaviour and fertility decisions.
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Mamman som förvald barnbidragsmottagare -Effekter på långsiktig fördelning av barnbidraget och jämställdhet i hushållet
Erica Lindahl Olof Rosenqvist Håkan Selin
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Etniskt blandad skola och framtida sociala interaktioner mellan personer med olika etnisk bakgrund
Helena Holmlund Erica Lindahl Sara Roman
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Betydelsen av arbetsgivarkontakter för ungdomars arbetsmarknadsinträde
Dagmar Müller
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Betydelsen av matte- och NO-lärares kön för elevers senare utbildningsval
Aino-Maija Aalto
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Kan regelefterlevnad uppnås utan hot om påföljder?
Axel Cronert
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Skatter, arv och gåvor till barn
Sebastian Escobar Henry Ohlsson Håkan Selin
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Gender-targeted transfers by default? Evidence from a child allowance reform in Sweden
Erica Lindahl Olof Rosenqvist Håkan Selin
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Immigrant peers in the class: responses among natives and the effects on long-run revealed preferences
Helena Holmlund Erica Lindahl Sara Roman
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Lost opportunities: Market work during high school, establishment closures and the impact on career prospects
Dagmar Müller
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Do girls choose science when exposed to female science teachers?
Aino-Maija Aalto
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Is regulatory compliance by employers possible without enforcement?
Axel Cronert
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Taxes, frictions and asset shifting – when Swedes disinherited themselves
Sebastian Escobar Henry Ohlsson Håkan Selin