Search for dissertations about: "Labor Supply"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 97 swedish dissertations containing the words Labor Supply.

  2. 21. Live Longer, Work Longer? Evidence from Sweden’s Ageing Population

    Author : Haodong Qi; Centrum för ekonomisk demografi; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Employment; Retirement Behavior; Working Life; Labor Supply; Pension Reform; Financial Incentives; Population Ageing;

    Abstract : Sweden’s elderly population is growing, propelled by a continuous decline in old-age mortality, while coupled with a persistent replacement level fertility. This changing age structure increases the per worker cost of providing a given age-vector of per capita benefits, encompassing costs for pensions, health care, and all other type of old-age welfare services, which presents a looming challenge for the welfare state to sustain its social transfer system. READ MORE

  4. 22. Essays on Employment Protection, Private Equity and Spousal Behavior

    Author : Martin Olsson; Peter Skogman Thoursie; Lars Persson; Andrea Ichino; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; employment protection; private equity; spouses; labor supply; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : This thesis consists of four papers, summarized as follows. “Employment Protection and Sickness Absence” An exemption in the Swedish Employment Security Act in 2001 allows employers with at most ten employees to exempt two workers from the seniority rule at times of redundancies. READ MORE

  5. 23. Economic Influences on Migration in Sweden

    Author : Olle Westerlund; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; interregional migration; labor market; household migration; labor mobility; local public sector; mobility grant; tax base; self selection; migration; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : Paper [I]- Household Migration and the Local Public Sector: Evidence from Sweden, 1981-1984 (co-authored with Michael L. Wyzan), contains an empirical explo­ration of the nexus between variables related to the local public sector budget and migration. READ MORE

  6. 24. Essays on Dynamic Macroeconomics

    Author : Conny Olovsson; Mats Persson; Dirk Krueger; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Labor supply; home production; the equity premium puzzle; social security; intergenerational risk sharing; Business and economics; Ekonomi;

    Abstract : My thesis consists of three papers in macroeconomics.“Why do Europeans Work so Little?” concerns labor supply. Market work per person is roughly 10 percent higher in the U.S. READ MORE

  7. 25. Gold, Coal and Iron : Essays on Industrialization and Economic Development

    Author : Adrian Poignant; Niklas Bengtsson; Mounir Karadja; Ola Olsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; electricity; female employment; labor supply; artisanal mining; agriculture; displacement; industrialization; industrial revolution; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : Essay I: How does electricity provision affect female employment? In theory, electrical household appliances can save labor in domestic production and divert it to the market. However, the empirical evidence has been inconclusive. READ MORE