Search for dissertations about: "Labor Market Outcomes"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 97 swedish dissertations containing the words Labor Market Outcomes.

  2. 1. Educational Choice and Labor Market Outcomes : Essays in Empirical Labor Economics

    Author : Marie Gartell; Mårten Palme; Anders Forslund; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Education; Linked employer-employee data; job and worker flows; Higher education; State dependence; College choice; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : The Importance of Education for the Reallocation of Labor: Evidence from Swedish Linked Employer-Employee Data 1986-2002 Using employer-employee data covering the whole Swedish economy over a uniquely long time period from 1986 to 2002, we examine how job flows and worker flows have been distributed both on an aggregate level and across educa­tional levels. We find that job and worker flows vary by educational level, not only with respect to magnitude and variation, but with respect to direction as well. READ MORE

  4. 2. Short- and Long-Term Influences of Education, Health Indicators, and Crime on Labor Market Outcomes : Five Essays in Empirical Labor Economics

    Author : Elisabeth Lång; Ali M. Ahmed; Judy Rich; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; education; health indicators; crime; labor market outcomes; family background; twins; field experiments;

    Abstract : The objective of this thesis is to improve the understanding of how several individual characteristics, namely education (years of schooling), health indicators (height, weight, smoking, alcohol consumption, and exercise), criminal behavior, and crime victimization, influence labor market outcomes in the short and long run. The first part of the thesis consists of three studies in which I adopt a within-twin-pair difference approach to analyze how education, health indicators, and earnings are associated with each other over the life cycle. READ MORE

  5. 3. Organizing the Labor Market : power, ideas, and institutions in wage formation, digital automation, and migration

    Author : German Bender; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : This dissertation focuses on power, organization, institutions, and ideas in Swedish labor relations. Composed of four self-contained research papers and an extensive summary chapter, it makes contributions to the fields of industrial relations, organization studies, and political economy. READ MORE

  6. 4. Career outcomes in the Swedish labor market : three contextual studies

    Author : Magnus Bygren; David Grusky; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Career development; Labour market; Sweden; Karriär; Arbetsmarknad; Sverige; 1990-talet;

    Abstract : Paper I:Being Different in the Workplace: Job Mobility into other Workplaces and Shifts into Unemployment. This study evaluates contradictory theoretical predictions about the consequences of belonging to a minority in a workplace context. READ MORE

  7. 5. Labor market outcomes during the Russian transition

    Author : Olga Lazareva; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Research questions/Empirical data. This thesis includes four papers that study selected aspects of the labor market transformation during the transition in Russia. READ MORE