2025
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Showing 1-5 of 5 Working papers
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2025:5
Mismatch, long-term unemployment and post-COVID labour market programmes in the Nordic countries
This paper explores post-pandemic developments and analyses post-COVID matching dynamics in the Nordic labour markets. It also discusses the role of institutions and the policies implemented to addres...
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2025:4
City size, employer concentration, and wage income inequality
Daniel Halvarsson Martin Korpi
This study investigates the relationship between the urban wage premium and employer concentration using Swedish full population employer-employee data. Departing from an AKM modeling framework to dis...
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2025:3
Firm-level responses to a canceled dividend tax increase
Johan Holmberg Håkan Selin
An increase in the dividend tax on shares of Swedish closely-held corporations, scheduled for January 1, 2018, was canceled at short notice. In a difference-in-difference setting, we examine how firms...
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2025:2
The relationship between intergenerational mobility and equality of opportunity
Among economists, empirical analysis of social mobility and the role of parental background is largely carried out in two separate strands of research. The intergenerational mobility literature estima...
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2025:1
Origin, norms, and the motherhood penalty
We present evidence that shared institutional and economic contexts may be at least as important as culturally rooted gender equality norms for the size of the motherhood penalty. Our study covers chi...