Sökning: "Unobserved Heterogeneity"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 34 avhandlingar innehållade orden Unobserved Heterogeneity.

  1. 21. Essays on earnings formation, labor market dynamics, and taxation

    Författare :Johan Holmberg; Thomas Aronsson; Gauthier Lanot; Johan Lundberg; Mette Ejrnæs; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Earnings dynamics; inequality; unemployment; social insurance; economic crises; taxation; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Chapter [I] analyses the dynamic properties of life-cycle earnings of men and women in Sweden by fitting a model to the covariance structure of earnings. We find that the financial crisis of 2008 did not have any major impact on the variability of earnings and that the upward trend in permanent earnings inequality observed in Sweden during the 1990s does not continue in the 2000s. LÄS MER

  3. 22. Empirical Essays on Railway Infrastructure Costs in Sweden

    Författare :Mats Andersson; Lars-Göran Mattsson; John Preston; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :Railways; Infrastructure; Marginal Costs; Maintenance; Renewal; Econometrics; Panel Data; Survival Analysis; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

    Sammanfattning : The subject of this thesis concerns pricing the use of transport infrastructure. We are empirically investigating the relationship between railway traffic volumes and infrastructure management costs. More specifically, we are interested in estimating the change in infrastructure management costs from marginal variations in traffic volumes, i.e. LÄS MER

  4. 23. Self-Image and Economic Behavior

    Författare :Margaret Samahita; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; self-image; social image; signaling; Pay-What-You-Want; competition; co-operation; communication; selfie;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four papers studying image concerns in three unique settings. The first paper develops a model incorporating self-image into the buyer's utility in a ''Pay-What-You-Want'' (PWYW) pricing scheme. LÄS MER

  5. 24. Perspectives on human capital : economic growth, occupational choice and intergenerational mobility

    Författare :Anna Sjögren; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation consists of three essays, taking different perspectives on human capital. The first essay looks at human capital from a growth perspective. Essays two and three focuses on the individual’s occupational decision and its relation to family background. LÄS MER

  7. 25. Exploring the links between knowledge spillovers, trade, productivity, and innovation

    Författare :Ingrid Viklund Ros; Hans Lööf; Anders Broström; Bettina Peters; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Nationalekonomi; Economics;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four papers which consider internal and external determinants of innovation, productivity, or export at the firm level sing matched panel data from various national and international databases.In the first paper, we examine a universal set of Swedish employer-employee panel data for the period 2000-2014. LÄS MER