Search for dissertations about: "wage curve"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words wage curve.

2. 1. Essays on Microeconometrics and Immigrant Assimilation

   Author : Alpaslan Akay; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Average marginal effect; Marginal effect of the average individual; Employment and earnings assimilation; Quasi-fixed effects approach; Initial value problem; Dynamic censored random-effects model; Monte Carlo experiment; Heckman’s approximation; Simple method of Wooldridge; Dynamic random-effects sample-selection model; wage-curve method;

   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

4. 2. Essays on Unemployment and Real Exchange Rates

   Author : Hans Lindblad; Torsten Persson; Ragnar Nymoen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Exchange Rates; Labor Mobility; NAIRU; Natural Rate; Phillips Curve; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : In the first essay, Persistence in Swedish Unemployment Rates, we study if there is no or weak tendency in unemployment rates to revert back to previous levels. Persistence is caused by: natural rate shocks, long unemployment cycles, and spill-over from cyclical to permanent unemployment. We find evidence of high persistence. READ MORE

5. 3. Essays on the functioning of the Swedish labour market

   Author : Stig Blomskog; Johnny Zetterberg; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : The subject of this thesis is the functioning of the Swedish Labour Market. In four essays, different aspects of this general question are examined. Two of the essays are related to youth labour market problems. READ MORE

6. 4. Labour Market Behaviour in a Transition Economy: The Czech Experience

   Author : Henrik Huitfeldt; John Earle; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi; nationalekonomi; Economics;

   Abstract : This thesis consists of four self-contained essays. Essay I presents and characterizes the fluctuations in the flows of workers in the Czech Republic in 1994-2001.The results indicate that most of the re-allocation of workers took place in the first half of the 1990s. READ MORE

7. 5. Insurance: solvency and valuation

   Author : Jonas Alm; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; risk aggregation; dependence modeling; solvency capital requirement; market-consistent valuation; market-consistent valuation;

   Abstract : This thesis concerns mathematical and statistical concepts useful to assess an insurer's risk of insolvency. We study company internal claims payment data and publicly available market data with the aim of estimating (the right tail of) the insurer's aggregate loss distribution. READ MORE