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- Adermon, Adrian, 1981-, et al.
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Gig-jobs : Stepping stones or dead ends?
- 2022
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Ingår i: Labour Economics. - : Elsevier. - 0927-5371 .- 1879-1034. ; 76
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How useful is work experience from the gig economy for labor market entrants searching for traditional wage jobs? We conducted a correspondence study in Sweden, comparing callback rates for recent high school graduates with (i) gig-experience, (ii) traditional experience, and (iii) unemployment history. We also study heterogeneous responses with respect to perceived foreign background. Our findings suggest that gig-experience is more valuable than unemployment, but less useful than traditional experience for majority applicants. Strikingly however, no form of labor market experience increases the callback rate for minority workers.
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- Adermon, Adrian, 1981-, et al.
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Dynastic Human Capital, Inequality, and Intergenerational Mobility
- 2021
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Ingår i: American Economic Review. - : American Economic Association. - 0002-8282 .- 1944-7981. ; 111:5, s. 1523-1548
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We estimate long-run intergenerational persistence in human capital using information on outcomes for the extended family: the dynasty. A dataset including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations, allows us to identify parents' siblings and cousins, their spouses, and spouses' siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that traditional parent-child estimates underestimate long-run intergenerational persistence by at least one-third. By adding outcomes for more distant ancestors, we show that almost all of the persistence is captured by the parental generation. Data on adoptees show that at least one-third of -long-term persistence is attributed to environmental factors.
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- Adermon, Adrian, 1981-, et al.
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Intergenerational Wealth Mobility and the Role of Inheritance: Evidence from Multiple Generations
- 2018
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Ingår i: Economic Journal. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0013-0133 .- 1468-0297. ; 128:612
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study estimates intergenerational wealth correlations across up to four generations and examines the degree to which the wealth association between parents and children can be explained by inheritances. Using a Swedish data set with newly hand-collected data on wealth and bequests, we find parent-child rank correlations of 0.3-0.4 and grandparent-grandchild rank correlations of 0.1-0.2. Bequests and gifts appear to be central in this process, accounting for at least half of the parent-child wealth correlation while earnings and education can account for only a quarter.
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- Adermon, Adrian, 1981-, et al.
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Job Polarization and Task-Biased Technological Change : Evidence from Sweden, 1975–2005
- 2015
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Economics. - : Wiley. - 0347-0520 .- 1467-9442. ; 117:3, s. 878-917
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper shows that between 1975 and 2005, Sweden exhibited a pattern of job polarization with expansions of the highest and lowest paid jobs compared to middle-wage jobs. The most popular explanation for such a pattern is the hypothesis of ‘task-biased technological change’, where technological progress reduces the demand for routine middle-wage jobs but increases the demand for non-routine jobs located at the tails of the job-wage distribution. Our estimates, however, do not support this explanation for the 1970s and 1980s. Stronger evidence for task biased technological change, albeit not conclusive, is found for the 1990s and 2000s. In particular, there is both a statistically and economically significant growth of non-routine jobs and a decline of routine jobs. Results for wages are, however, mixed; while task-biased technological change cannot explain changes in between-occupation wage differentials, it does have considerable explanatory power for changes in within-occupation wage differentials.
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- Adermon, Adrian, 1981-, et al.
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Piracy and Music Sales : The Effects of An Anti-Piracy Law
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. - : Elsevier. - 0167-2681 .- 1879-1751. ; 105, s. 90-106
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The implementation of a copyright protection reform in Sweden in April 2009 suddenly increased the risk of being caught and punished for illegal file sharing. This paper investigates the impact of the reform on illegal file sharing and music sales using a difference-in-differences approach with Norway and Finland as control groups. We find that the reform decreased Internet traffic by 16% and increased music sales by 36% during the first six months. Pirated music therefore seems to be a strong substitute to legal music. However, the reform effects disappeared almost completely after six months, likely because of the weak enforcement of the law.
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- Adermon, Adrian, 1981-, et al.
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Understanding occupational wage growth
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Using a new identification strategy, we jointly estimate the growth in occupationalwage premia as well as time-varying occupation-specific life-cycle profiles for Swedishworkers 1996–2013. We document a substantial increase in between-occupation wageinequality due to differential growth in premia. The association of wage premiumgrowth and employment growth is positive, suggesting that premium growth ispredominantly driven by demand side factors. We also find that wage growth dueto occupation-specific skill acquisition was more dispersed in the early years of thesample period. Our results are robust to allowing for occupation-level changes inreturns to cognitive and psycho-social skills.
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- Manduca, Robert, et al.
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Measuring Absolute Income Mobility : Lessons from North America and Europet
- 2024
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Ingår i: American Economic Journal. - : American Economic Association. - 1945-7782 .- 1945-7790. ; 16:2, s. 1-30
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We use linked parent-child administrative data for five countries in North America and Europe, as well as detailed survey data for two more, to investigate methodological challenges in the estimation of absolute income mobility. We show that the commonly used "copula and marginals" approximation methods perform well across countries in our sample, and the greatest challenges to their accuracy stem not from assumptions about relative mobility rates over time but from the use of nonrepresentative marginal income distributions. We also provide a multicountry analysis of sensitivity to specification decisions related to age of income measurement, income concept, family structure, and price index. (JEL D31, G51, I31, J12, J31, J62)
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- Yakymovych, Yaroslav, 1994-
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Workers and Occupations in a Changing Labour Market : The Heterogeneous Effects of Mass Layoffs and Social Safety Nets
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Essay I: Sickness insurance guarantees employees the right to take leave from work when they are sick, but is vulnerable to excessive use. This paper studies which workers react to changes in monitoring by physicians in a large-scale randomised experiment. I use a causal forest to identify heterogeneous effects on the duration of workers’ sickness absence spells. Those who are most sensitive to monitoring have a history of extensive sick leave uptake, low socioeconomic status, and male gender. A targeted monitoring policy is estimated to be 40 percent more efficient than a random one.Essay II: Routine-biased technological change has depressed prospects for workers in exposed occupations, with those displaced in mass layoffs particularly affected. I compare labour market outcomes of displaced routine workers to those of displaced non-routine workers using Swedish microdata. The results show substantial and persistent routine penalties among displaced workers. A possible channel is the loss of occupation- and industry-specific human capital, as routine workers are unable to find jobs similar to those they had before displacement. I do not find evidence that switching to a non-routine occupation reduces routine workers’ losses.Essay III (with Susan Athey, Lisa Simon, Oskar Nordström Skans and Johan Vikström): We study heterogeneity in the impact of job loss in mass layoffs using generalized random forests. We identify the groups of workers who are hit the hardest and document substantial and persistent variation in displacement losses. Worker attributes and semi-aggregate local and industry conditions interact to generate this heterogeneity. Old and less-educated workers lose six times as much as young and highly educated workers. Nevertheless, there is overlap among the losses of these two groups, much of which is related to industries and locations. Working in manufacturing and living in a rural area are strong predictors of severe displacement losses. No simple rule is as effective at identifying vulnerable workers as the more flexible generalized random forest.Essay IV (with Adrian Adermon, Simon Ek and Georg Graetz): Using a new identification strategy, we jointly estimate growth in occupational wage premia and time-varying occupation-specific lifecycle profiles for Swedish workers in 1996–2013. We document a substantial increase in between-occupation wage inequality due to differential growth in premia. The association of wage premium growth and employment growth is positive, suggesting that premium growth is predominantly driven by demand side factors. Wage growth due to occupation-specific skill acquisition was more dispersed in the early years of the sample period. Our results are robust to allowing for occupation-level changes in returns to cognitive and psycho-social skills.
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