Search for dissertations about: "wage assimilation"
Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the words wage assimilation.
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1. Empirical Essays on Wage Setting and Immigrant Labor Market Opportunities
Abstract : This thesis consists of three self-contained essays.Essay 1: This essay estimates wage assimilation among non-western immigrants in Sweden, controlling for selection into employment by including individual fixed effects. READ MORE
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2. Essays on Microeconometrics and Immigrant Assimilation
Abstract : Paper I. Asymptotic bias reduction for a conditional marginal effects estimator in sam- ple selection models. In this article we discuss the di¤erences between the average marginal effect and the mar- ginal effect of the average individual in sample selection models, estimated by the Heck- man procedure. READ MORE
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3. Decomposition of Immigrant Wage Assimilation - A study of the Swedish Labor Market
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4. The Mystery of Inequality : Essays on Culture, Development, and Distributions
Abstract : Essay I (with Daniel Waldenström): We estimate trends in global earnings dispersion across occupational groups by constructing a new database that covers 68 developed and developing countries between 1970 and 2018. Our main finding is that global earnings inequality has fallen, primarily during the 2000s and 2010s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped by 15 points and the earnings share of the world’s poorest half doubled. READ MORE
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5. Benefits or Work? Social Programs and Labor Supply
Abstract : This thesis consists of four self-contained essays.Essay I: This essay evaluates how access to paid parental leave affects labor market entrance for immigrating mothers with small children. READ MORE