Sökning: "Social economics"

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  1. 36. Essays on Labor Economics : The Role of Government in Labor Supply Choices

    Författare :Niklas Blomqvist; Peter Skogman Thoursie; Martin Olsson; Björn Tyrefors; Spencer Bastani; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Involuntary Part-time Employment; Labor Supply; Tax Elasticity; Refugees; Immigration; Integration; Natural Resource Extraction; Family Resources; Health; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : "Right to Work Full-time" Policies and Involuntary Part-time EmploymentThis paper investigates the effect of right to full-time policies implemented to decrease involuntary part-time work for public care workers employed by Swedish municipalities. Taking advantage of a staggered decision process, these policies are evaluated using a difference-in-differences approach. LÄS MER

  3. 37. Labor, Trade and Finance : Essays in Applied Economics

    Författare :Mengyi Cao; Mårten Palme; Mikael Lindahl; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Human Capital; Education; Home Equity; International Trade; Pension Plan; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Essay I: Credit Constraint and College Attendance. This paper shows that housing wealth alleviate credit constraints for potential college attendees by enabling home owners to extract equity from their property and invest it in the education. LÄS MER

  4. 38. The Absent Entrepreneur : Exploring the Role of the Entrepreneur in Economics

    Författare :Arvid Malm; Pontus Braunerhjelm; Bo Carlsson; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; entrepreneurship; education; income distribution; philanthropy; economics; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Economics as an academic discipline has often found it difficult to formally model the Entrepreneur. As Baumol (1968) noted, “The theoretical firm is entrepreneurless—the prince of Denmark has been expunged from the discussion of Hamlet. LÄS MER

  5. 39. Societal Impacts of Modern Conscription : Human Capital, Social Capital and Criminal Behaviour

    Författare :Daniel Almén; Heléne Berg; Mårten Palme; Yann Algan; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Conscription; Military; Human Capital; Social Capital; Civic Engagement; Crime; Criminal Behaviour; Labour Market; Election Participation; Nation-building; School for the Nation; Opportunity Cost; Welfare State; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Opportunity Costs and Conscription: An Unintended Progressive Tax?Throughout history to present days, policymakers, social commentators and others have oftentimes viewed conscription as a natural extension of secondary education, and an important institution for vocational training. This paper uses Swedish administrative data and exploits a reform in 2004, implying a sudden downsizing of the military, to identify the causal effects of peacetime conscription on later labour market outcomes and education. LÄS MER

  7. 40. Externalities and Coordination Failures

    Författare :Sebastian Tebbe; Jonathan de Quidt; Robert Östling; Torsten Persson; Ulrich Wagner; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Behavioral Economics; Environmental Economics; Technology Adoption; Transportation; Government Pricing Policy; Experimental Economics; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Peer Effects in Electric Car Adoption: Evidence from SwedenI study peer effects in the diffusion of electric cars in Sweden. To identify peer effects, I use a shift-share IV design that links the renewal of elapsing individual-level, car leasing contracts (i.e., shift) with the propensity to acquire an electric car based on individual traits (i. LÄS MER