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- Albrecht, James, et al.
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The aggregate labor market effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift program
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Ingår i: Review of economic dynamics. - : Elsevier BV. - 1094-2025 .- 1096-6099. ; 12:1, s. 129-146
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done by calibrating an equilibrium search model with heterogeneous worker skills using pre-program data and then forecasting the program impacts. We compare the forecasts to observed aggregate labor market outcomes after termination of the program.
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- Albrecht, James, et al.
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The career dynamics of high-skilled women and men : Evidence from Sweden
- 2018
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Ingår i: European Economic Review. - : Elsevier BV. - 0014-2921 .- 1873-572X. ; 105, s. 83-102
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we use matched worker-firm register data from Sweden to examine the career dynamics of high-skill women and men. Specifically, we track wages for up to 20 years among women and men born in the years 1960-70 who completed a university degree in business or economics. These women and men have similar wages and earnings at the start of their careers, but their career paths diverge substantially as they age. These men and women also have substantial differences in wage paths associated with becoming a parent. We look at whether firm effects account for the differences we observe between women's and men's wage profiles. We document differences between the firms where men work and those where women work. However, a wage decomposition suggests that these differences in firm characteristics play only a small role in explaining the gender log wage gap among these workers. We then examine whether gender differences in firm-to-firm mobility help explain the patterns in wages that we see. Men and women both exhibit greater mobility early in their careers, but there is little gender difference in this firmto-firm mobility. We find that the main driver of the gender difference in log wage profiles is that men experience higher wage gains than women do both as switchers and as stayers.
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- Albrecht, James, et al.
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Unionization and the Evolution of the Wage Distribution in Sweden : 1968 to 2000
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Ingår i: Industrial & labor relations review. - 0019-7939 .- 2162-271X. ; 64:5, s. 1039-1057
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Using the 1968, 1981, and 2000 Swedish Level of Living Surveys, the authors examine the evolution of the wage distribution in Sweden over the periods 1968–1981 and 1981–2000. The first period was the heyday of the Swedish solidarity wage policy with strong equalization clauses in the central wage agreements. During the second period, there was more flexibility for firms to adjust wages to reflect conditions such as labor shortages in particular fields. The authors find a remarkable narrowing of the wage distribution in the first period, but in the second period, wages grew more equally across the distribution. The authors decompose these changes in wages across the distribution into two components—those due to changes in the distribution of characteristics such as education and experience and those due to changes in the distribution of returns to those characteristics. They find that the wage compression between 1968 and 1981 was driven by changes in the distribution of returns, but between 1981 and 2000, the change in the distribution of returns had less of an effect on wage compression.
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- Albrecht, James W., et al.
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Career interruption and subsequent earnings : a reexamination using Swedish data
- 1996
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper reexamines the link between career interruptions and subsequent wages. Using a rich new Swedish dataset, we are able to disaggregate time out of work into several components. Regressing log wages on aggregate total time out leads to the standard result, i.e., a negative coefficient on time out. However, we find that different types of time out have different effects on wages and that these effects vary by gender. This casts doubt on the usual human capital depreciation interpretation that has been placed on the negative coefficient of total time out in the wage equation. We propose a simple signaling model as an alternative interpretation.
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- Albrecht, James W., et al.
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Career interruption and subsequent earnings : A reexamination using Swedish data
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Ingår i: Journal of Human Resources. ; 34, s. 294-311
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper reexamines the link between career interruptions and subsequent wages. Using a rich new Swedish dataset, we are able to disaggregate time out of work into several components. Regressing log wages on aggregate total time out leads to the standar
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