Sökning: "Per Skedinger"
Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden Per Skedinger.
1. Essays on investment in human capital
Sammanfattning : Heterogeneous On-the-job Training: Implications for the Specification and Estimation of the human Capital Earnings FunctionDespite the centrality of heterogeneous on-the-job training in human capital theory, this is rarely accounted for in the estimation. The empirical findings indicate that individual-specific components in the earnings function are stochastic. LÄS MER
2. Unseen Job Creators and Seniority Rules : Two essays on firm growth barriers
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3. Toward more inclusive labor markets : A firm-level perspective on hiring outsiders
Sammanfattning : This thesis contains five self-contained papers on firms’ hiring decisions regarding outsiders and how these decisions interact with insiders. Outsiders are broadly defined as people with a weak labor market position, e.g., unemployed, non-Western migrants or minimum-wage workers. LÄS MER
4. Essays on temporary work agencies and the economic analysis of law
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of an introductory chapter and four self-contained papers on temporary work agenciesand the economic analysis of law.Paper [I] adds to the theoretical literature on the incentives of Temporary Work Agencies (TWAs). LÄS MER
5. Structural Change, Match Quality, and Integration in the Labor Market
Sammanfattning : Essay I: Are workers with poor outside opportunities less responsive and more susceptible to negative demand shifts in routine occupations? To answer this, I create and estimate an occupation specialization index (OSI) using Swedish register data and machine learning tools. It measures the expected difference in utility between a worker's occupation and his best non-routine outside option. LÄS MER