Search for dissertations about: "Jonas Agell"
Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words Jonas Agell.
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1. Indirect effects of unemployment and low earnings : Crime and children's school performance
Abstract : This thesis consists of three self-contained essays that consider indirect effects of unemployment and low earnings on crime and children’s school performance. The first essay, Crime, unemployment and labor market programs in turbulent times (joint with Jonas Agell), investigates the effect of unemployment and participation in labor market programs, in general and among youth, on Swedish crime rates using a new panel data set for Swedish municipalities for the period 1996-2000. READ MORE
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2. Distributional Side Effects of Tax Policies: An Analysis of Tax Avoidance and Congestion Tolls
Abstract : This thesis consists of three self-contained essays.Essay 1This essay examines the effects of tax avoidance on saving and income distribution. In an intertemporal model taxes can be avoided through asset trade. We find that including an avoidance response to taxation will increase all the negative distortions of increased tax progressivity. READ MORE
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3. Essays in Empirical Labor Economics
Abstract : This thesis consists of four self-contained essays in the field of empirical labor economics.The first essay, Nominal Wage Rigidity in the Swedish Labor Market, presents an empirical investigation of the extent of downward nominal wage rigidity on the Swedish labor market. READ MORE