Sökning: "job specific capital"

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  1. 1. Individual and Family Consequences of Involuntary Job Loss

    Författare :Marcus Eliason; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; job displacment; job loss; displaced workers; plant closure; linked employer-employee data; divorce; mortality; unemployment; job specific capital; added worker effect; female labour supply; family income;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis studies the long-term consequences of involuntary job loss. It consists of four self-contained essays. Essay I: Does Job Loss Shorten Life? This paper examines whether there is a causal relationship from job displacement to mortality. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Geographic Labour Mobility - Causes and Consequences

    Författare :Anders Boman; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; geographic mobility; internal migration; job displacement; ethnic enclaves; unemployment; job search; search scope; earnings effects; gender differences; immigrants; selection;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters. The first chapter studies the causes of internal migration, the second studies the earnings effects of internal migration, and the third analyses what could be perceived as an effect of mobility but is in fact not. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Rough starts and tough times : geographies of workers and firms in transition

    Författare :Therese Danley; Rikard Eriksson; Urban Lindgren; Emma Lundholm; Neil Lee; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; agglomerations; job matching; human capital; plant closure; firm survival;

    Sammanfattning : Economic change can lead to multiple and sometimes conflicting outcomes for workers, employers, and regions. At the center of economic change are the dynamic interactions among diverse workers and firms in specific labor market contexts. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Empirical Essays on Wage Setting and Immigrant Labor Market Opportunities

    Författare :Tove Eliasson; Oskar Nordström Skans; Per-Anders Edin; Tor Eriksson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Firm sorting; mobility; wage assimilation; host country specific human capital; employer learning; self-employment; immigrant entrepreneurs; capital access; information asymmetry; minority representation; collective bargaining; turnover; hours of work; labor input; labor costs; Nationalekonomi; Economics;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three self-contained essays.Essay 1: This essay estimates wage assimilation among non-western immigrants in Sweden, controlling for selection into employment by including individual fixed effects. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Macroeconomic Fluctuations and Microeconomic Adjustments : Wages, Capital, and Labor market Policy

    Författare :Stefan Laséen; Jan Rose Skaksen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi; nationalekonomi; Economics;

    Sammanfattning : Essay 1 (with Henrik Jordahl) investigates how the degree of central bank conservatism affects the government's incentives to reform the labor market. An increase in conservatism triggers two opposite effects. It reduces the inflation bias of discretionary monetary policy and hence the benefits of a reform. LÄS MER