Search for dissertations about: "earnings profiles"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words earnings profiles.

  2. 1. Learning and earning: studies on a cohort of Swedish men

    Author : Sofia Sandgren; Gunnar Eliasson; John Bishop; KTH; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Business and economics; returns to education; ability bias; earnings distributions; lifetime earnings; Ekonomi; Business and economics; Ekonomi;

    Abstract : Earnings of Swedish Young Men: Griliches’ (1976) study on the wage premium for formal schooling in America is replicated on the Swedish Malmö Longitudinal Study, an individual data base with unusually good ability measures collected at young age. The model is tried for two years, when the men were 25 and 30 years old, respectively. READ MORE

  4. 2. Studies on the Determinants and Effects of Health, Inequality and Labour Supply: Micro and Macro Evidence

    Author : Ruth-Aïda Nahum; Thomas Lindh; Per-Anders Edin; Mårten Palme; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : Economics; baby boom; child health; cohort effects; earnings profiles; income inequality; labour supply; liquidity constraint; panel data; psychosocial health; regional economic growth; sickness absence; Nationalekonomi; nationalekonomi; Economics;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of an introduction and four self-contained essays.Essay I (with Susanne Dahlberg) estimates cohort size effects on earnings profiles and further assesses whether these profiles are affected by the individuals' position in the baby boom. READ MORE

  5. 3. Essays on behavioral determinants of earnings quality

    Author : Savvas Papadopoulos; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Företagsledare; Redovisning; Accounting; Executives;

    Abstract : The neoclassical economic view of the firm - upon which most of the empirical financial accounting research is based - assumes that managers are rational wealth optimizers. Therefore, managers are considered homogeneous and selfless inputs into the production process, and this implies that different managers are perfect substitutes for one another. READ MORE

  6. 4. 1. Cohort Effects on Earnings Profiles: Evidence from Sweden. 2. Education and Parental Background

    Author : Susanne Dahlberg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

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  7. 5. Essays on Income Risk, Portfolio Choices and the Macroeconomy

    Author : Gualtiero Azzalini; Per Krusell; Kurt Mitman; Alexander Michaelides; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Macroeconomics; household finance; income risk; portfolio choice; wealth inequality; heterogeneous agents; insurance; search and matching; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : Business cycle asymmetry of earnings pass-throughHow does the firm's role as an insurance provider vary over the business cycle? Using Swedish administrative data, I document that idiosyncratic firm productivity shocks are passed through workers' earnings asymmetrically. In non-recessions, firms are good insurers against negative shocks. READ MORE