The functioning of the labour market

This project studies how firm productivity is associated with employee earnings, and to what extent this can explain earnings differences between immigrants and natives.

The project uses ...

This project is part of a global initiative, the Global Income Dynamics Database Project, to create harmonized statistics on earnings dynamics across countries for meaningful international compa...

In this project, we investigate whether the waiting time before asylum cases are closed affects the labour market integration of refugees. A handful of previous studies from different countries ...

In this project we evaluate the earnings effects of the phase-out of the Swedish Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). The EITC (jobbskatteavdraget) was first introduced in 2007, and it has been expa...

The Swedish banking crisis in the early 1990s, among the five most severe financial crises historically, provides an insightful yet previously unexplored episode to improve our understanding of ...

A large literature has studied social mobility between generations. Many of these studies estimate correlations between siblings, which provide a measure of how important family background and s...

The Swedish EITC (Jobbskatteavdraget) strengthens the incentives for parents to share parental leave equally. However, few people know how the tax reduction works. Does this lack of kno...

Despite the convergence in labour force participation, educational level, and the choice of professions observed in the last few decades, significant gender wage gaps still persist in all indust...

Understanding the sources of earnings uncertainty faced by workers in the labor market is fundamental to the design of insurance policies that intend to reduce uncertainty and inequality in the ...

När en anställd blir 67 år har arbetsgivaren rätt att säga upp personen på godtyckliga grunder. Vi studerar effekter av en reform som i praktiken höjde avg&a...