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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 22 avhandlingar innehållade orden per edin.

  1. 1. Essays on the Origins of Human Capital, Crime and Income Inequality

    Författare :Per Olof Robling; Markus Jäntti; Per-Anders Edin; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This Ph.D. thesis in Economics consists of four self-contained essays investigating the importance of early life environment for long-run outcomes and the consequences of immigration for income inequality. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Discrimination, Sickness Absence, and Labor Market Policy

    Författare :Jonas Lagerström; Per-Anders Edin; Peter Fredriksson; Alan B. Krueger; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Economics; Discrimination; Unobserved heterogeneity; Absenteeism; Social experiment; Active labor market policy; Program evaluation; Nationalekonomi; nationalekonomi; Economics;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation consists of an introduction and four self-contained essays:Essay 1 (with Stefan Eriksson) investigates empirically whether being unemployed per se reduces the probability of getting contacted by a firm. Individuals registered at the Swedish employment offices post their qualifications in a database available to employers over the Internet. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Automation and the Consequences of Occupational Decline

    Författare :Sofia Hernnäs; Georg Graetz; Per-Anders Edin; Sebastian Findeisen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; technological change; automation; routine-biased technological change; skill prices; skill bundling; occupations; inequality; health; death of despair; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Essay I. Automation affects workers because it affects the return to their skills when performing different tasks. I propose a general equilibrium model of occupational choice and technological change which takes two important labor market features into account: (i) automation happens to tasks and (ii) workers have bundled skills. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Empirical Essays on Earnings Inequality

    Författare :Magnus Gustavsson; Per-Anders Edin; Stephen P. Jenkins; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; Earnings inequality; Human capital; Panel data; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi; nationalekonomi; Economics;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis consists of four self-contained essays.Essay I decomposes the cross-sectional variance of male annual earnings in Sweden between 1960 and 1990 into permanent and transitory components and compares the results to the U.S. evidence. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Essays in Labor and Demographic Economics

    Författare :Hans Grönqvist; Olof Åslund; Per-Anders Edin; Andrea Ichino; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; Nationalekonomi; nationalekonomi; Economics;

    Sammanfattning : Essay 1: (co-written with Olof Åslund) We study the impact of family size on intermediate and long-term outcomes using twin births as an exogenous source of varia¬tion in family size in an unusually rich dataset. Similar to recent studies, we find no evidence of a causal effect on long-term outcomes and show that not taking selection effects into account will likely overstate the effects. LÄS MER