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Accounting for Cross-Country Differences in Intergenerational Earnings Persistence: The Impact of Taxation and Public Education Expenditure

Holter, Hans A - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

I document a strong negative cross-country correlation between intergenerational earnings persistence and tax progressivity, and between intergenerational earnings persistence and public expenditure on tertiary education. To explain these correlations I then develop an intergenerational...

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Wage Bargaining, Union Membership, and the Organization of Unemployment Insurance

Holmlund, Bertil; Lundborg, Per - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1996

The paper offers a theoretical analysis of a labor market institution known as the Gent system, which is a system where unions run unemployment insurance (UI) through government-subsidized UI funds. This sytem is practiced in four Nordic countries with comparatively very high unionization rates....

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Evaluation of Swedish Youth Labour Market Programmes

Larsson, Laura - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000

model. The results indicate either zero or negative effects of both programmes on earnings, re-employment probability and …

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Unemployment, Labour Market Programmes and Wage Determination: Evidence from the Czech and Slovak Republics

Huitfeldt, Henrik - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2001

This paper studies effects of unemployment and labour market programmes on real wages in the Czech and Slovak Republics using district paneldata for the period 1992-1998. Clear evidence of a "wage curve" exists in both countries. The estimated unemployment elasticity of pay is, however, higher...

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Labor Market Programs, the Discouraged-Worker Effect, and Labor Force Participation

Johansson, Kerstin - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2002

This paper estimates the macroeconomic effect of labor market programs on labor force participation. Labor market programs could counteract business-cycle variation in the participation rate that is due to the discouraged-worker effect, and they could prevent labor force outflow. An equation...

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Effects of contracting out employment services: Evidence from a randomized experiment

Bennmarker, Helge; Grönqvist, Erik; Öckert, Björn - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012

empirically assess the effectiveness of contracting out employment services to private placement agencies. Our results show that … Employment Service (PES); e.g., they receive more assistance in improving their job search technology. We do not find any overall … difference in the chances of finding employment between private placement agencies and the PES, but this hides important …

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Long Term Impacts of Compensatory Preschool on Health and Behavior: Evidence from Head Start

Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012

This paper provides new estimates of the medium and long-term impacts of Head Start on the health and behavioral problems of its participants. We identify these impacts using discontinuities in the probability of participation induced by program eligibility rules. Our strategy allows us to...

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The Long Term Impact of French Settlement on Education in Algeria

Merrouche, Ouarda - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007

This paper provides evidence on the long run relationship between European settlers presence and education levels in Algeria. To correct for endogenous sorting of settlers (and natives) into regions I rely on the fact that proximity to the Mediteranean coast determined the timing of conquest and...

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Public Provision of Private Goods and Nondistortionary Marginal Tax Rates: Some Further Results

Blomquist, Sören - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2009

The incidence and efficiency losses of taxes have usually been analyzed in isolation from public expenditures. This negligence of the expenditure side may imply a serious misperception of the effects of marginal tax rates. The reason is that part of the marginal tax may in fact be a payment for...

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Price Subsidies versus Public Provision

Blomquist, Sören; Christiansen, Vidar - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1997

The paper discusses which redistributional policies are efficient when the identity of the high and low skill persons is private information. Our major purpose is to identify the more efficient policy when, presumably for administrative reasons, the policy option is confined to the choice...

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