Search for dissertations about: "labor income"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 167 swedish dissertations containing the words labor income.
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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. Essays on Income Risk and Inequality
Abstract : Consumption Dynamics under Time-Varying Unemployment Risk We study the response of households' demand for durable goods to fluctuations in unemployment risk. First, using survey data, we document that household durable expenditures react strongly to unemployment risk, while the effect on nondurable expenditures is indistinguishable from zero. READ MORE
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3. Studies on Social Insurance, Income Taxation and Labor Supply
Abstract : This thesis consists of five papers, summarized as follows. "Disability Insurance, Population Health, and Employment in Sweden"This paper describes the development of population health and disability insurance utilization for older workers in Sweden and analyzes the relation between the two. READ MORE
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4. The Immigrant Experience: Changing Employment and Income Patterns in Sweden, 1970 - 1993
Abstract : This thesis explores the changing patterns of employment and income assimilation among male immigrants to Sweden. In brief, the results of this work are that immigrants have been facing an increasingly difficult time integrating into the Swedish economy. READ MORE
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5. Explaining Earnings and Income Inequality in Chile
Abstract : The focal point of all papers in this thesis is income inequality in Chile. In some of them household income is analyzed, in others monthly earnings or the wage rate are used. In the first and fourth paper a long-run analysis is done, while in the second and third I concentrate my attention only on the 1990s. READ MORE