Working papers
Showing 1-10 of 598 Working papers
-
2024:15
The health effects of a youth labor market activation policy
We examine the health effects of a labor market activation policy, the Youth Job Guarantee, implemented in Sweden in 2007. To estimate the causal effects of this policy on health, we implement a...
-
2024:14
Do sibling correlations in skills, schooling, and earnings vary by socioeconomic background? Insights from Sweden
Family background shapes individual outcomes throughout life. While the existing literature documents how the importance of family background, typically measured by the degree of sibling correla...
-
2024:13
Labor Market Matching, Wages, and Amenities
Thibaut Lamadon Jeremy Lise Costas Meghir Jean-Marc Robin
This paper develops the nonparametric identification of models with production complementarities, worker-firm specific disutility of labor and search frictions. Mobility in the model is subject ...
-
2024:12
The child penalty in Sweden: evidence, trends, and child gender
Anton Sundberg
This paper examines the impact of parenthood on labor market outcomes for both men and women using population-wide annual income data from 1960 to 2021 in Sweden. First, I document the contempor...
-
2024:11
Divorce law reform, family stability, and children's long-term outcomes
Edvin Hertegård
While divorce laws are known to influence family behavior, empirical evidence of their effects on children remains scarce. I shed more light on this by evaluating the Swedish divorce law reform of...
-
2024:10
The heterogeneous earnings impact of job lossacross workers, establishments, and markets
Using generalized random forests and rich Swedish administrative data, we show that the earnings effects of job displacement due to establishment closures are highly heterogeneous. We find as mu...
-
2024:9
Professional networks and the labour market assimilation of immigrants
We study how professional networks are related to immigrant labour market integration. Matched employer-employee data for Sweden show that networks grow with time in the host country and that th...
-
2024:8
Optimal redistribution and education signaling
This paper studies optimal taxation of income and education when employers cannot observe workers’ productivity and workers signal their productivity to firms by choosing both quantity and...
-
2024:7
Household specialization and competition for promotion
We study how the presence of promotion competition in the labor market affects household specialization patterns. By embedding a promotion tournament model in a household setting, we show that s...
-
2024:6
The Boost for reading
We evaluate the “Boost for Reading”, an in-service training program for teachers aimed at improving the teaching of literacy and boosting students’ reading and writing proficie...
-
...