Search for dissertations about: "Anders Björklund"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 swedish dissertations containing the words Anders Björklund.
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1. School Reform, Educational Achievement and Lifetime Income : Essays in Empirical Labor Economics
Abstract : The Impact of School Choice on Pupil Achievement, Segregation and Costs: Swedish Evidence. This paper evaluates school choice at the compulsory school level. We estimate the impact of an increased enrolment in private schools on average achievement using within-municipality variation over time. READ MORE
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2. Natural and Classical Experiments in Swedish Labour Market Policy
Abstract : "Effects of Changes in the Unemployment Insurance Eligibility Requirements on Job Duration — Swedish Evidence" This paper investigates the impact of the unemployment insurance (UI) entrance requirement on employment duration among earlier unemployed in Sweden. I exploit changes in the rule taking place in 1994 and 1997 to study behavioural adjustments in the timing of job separation between 1992, 1996, and 1998. READ MORE
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3. Hypoglycaemia in pregnancy : hypoglycaemic clamp studies during and after pregnancy in women with IDDM
Abstract : Problem: In pregnant women with IDDM a strict insulin regimen is generally instituted, which permits the possibility of a normal fetal outcome. This, however, increases the risk of hypoglycaemia, and a high prevalence of severe hypoglycaemia has been reported during pregnancy in these women. READ MORE
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4. Studies in the dynamics of unemployment
Abstract : From chapter 1: The point of departure for the collection of studies presented in the following is the message delivered by American economists during the beginning of the 70’s that a proper understanding of the unemployment problem requires a dynamic view of the labor market in general and unemployment in particular. The "dynamic view" should emphasize the flows into and out of unemployment. READ MORE
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5. Limit Theorems for Ergodic Group Actions and Random Walks
Abstract : This thesis consists of an introduction, a summary and 7 papers. The papers are devoted to problems in ergodic theory, equidistribution on compact manifolds and random walks on groups. In Papers A and B, we generalize two classical ergodic theorems for actions of abelian groups. READ MORE