The functioning of the labour market
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91/2020
Relative income within households and labour supply: Evidence from a teacher salary increase
Erik Grönqvist Lena Hensvik Anna Thoresson
Previous research indicates that the relative income between spouses matters for the division of labour within the household. This project aims at contributing to this literature by taking advan...
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196/2019
Does the return to match quality depend on workers' outside options?
Simon Ek Peter Fredriksson Lena Hensvik Oskar Nordström Skans
This project examines whether the relationship between an employee’s match quality – how well the employee’s skills correspond to the job’s qualification requirements &nd...
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184/2019
City size and wage inequality: The role of firm productivity in changing income dispersion
Daniel Halvarsson Martin Korpi
In the present research project, we investigate the extent to which competition for labour within different industries affects the variation in wage income among those working within these indus...
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18/2019
Efterfrågan på arbetskraft och löneskillnader
I detta projekt avser vi studera hur yrkes-specifika lönepremier har förändrats i Sverige under perioden 1996–2013.
Många rika länder har under senare dece...
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265/2016
Financial crisis and firm behaviour: Evidence from the Swedish banking crisis in the early 90s
Julien Grenet Hans Grönqvist Daniel Jahnson
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 ...
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225/2016
Sibling wealth corelations
Adrian Adermon Kristin Gunnarsson
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...
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84/2015
Family friendly firms? Worker mobility, firm attributes and wage trajectories of women and men
Per Johansson V. Joseph Hotz Arizo Karimi
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...