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- Anderberg, Dan, et al.
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Stratification, social networks in the labour market, and intergenerational mobility
- 2007
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In: Economic Journal. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1468-0297 .- 0013-0133. ; 117:520, s. 782-812
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Young individuals, taking the locational choices made by their altruistic parents as given, decide whether or not to acquire skills. The use of location-specific word-of-mouth communication in the transmission of information about (skilled) job opportunities implies that the local social environment partly determines an individual's expected returns to education. Stratified equilibria, when they exist, are characterised by low intergenerational social mobility and inefficient use of talent. In addition, the equilibrium responses to factors that generally encourage education may, in stratified outcomes, be highly asymmetric across socio-economic groups. Non-stratified equilibria are likely to be destabilised by measures that encourage education.
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- Holm, Jerker, et al.
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Tropic Trust versus Nordic Trust Experimental Evidence from Tanzania and Sweden
- 2005
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In: Economic Journal. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1468-0297 .- 0013-0133. ; 115:503, s. 505-532
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Undergraduates in Tanzania and Sweden participated in one Trust game, one Dictator game, and answered a standard set of survey questions relating to trust. In both countries we detected a strong and significant relation between Dictator donations and proportions returned in Trust games, indicating that unconditional distribution preferences matter in Trust game behaviour. In Sweden incentive compatible evaluations of unrevealed Dictator donations significantly predicted the amount sent in Trust games. The predictive power of survey trust questions differed between countries: a plausible relation between survey trust and trust behaviour was found in Sweden but not in Tanzania.
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- Ljungqvist, Lars
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How do Lay‐off Costs Affect Employment?
- 2002
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In: The Economic Journal. - : Oxford University Press. - 1468-0297 .- 0013-0133. ; 112:482, s. 829-853
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- General equilibrium analyses of lay‐off costs have had mixed messages on the implications for employment. This paper brings out the economic forces at work and sheds light on the disparate results. We explain why lay‐off costs tend to increase employment in search models while the opposite is true in models with employment lotteries. In matching models, we show that the employment effects depend critically on how lay‐off costs are assumed to enter the bargaining process.
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- Battu, Harminder, et al.
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OPPOSITIONAL IDENTITIES AND EMPLOYMENT FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES : EVIDENCE FROM ENGLAND
- 2010
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In: Economic Journal. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0013-0133 .- 1468-0297. ; 120:542, s. f52-F71
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Where a community or group is socially excluded from a dominant group, some individuals of that group may identify with the dominant culture and others may reject that culture. The aim of this article is to investigate this issue by empirically analysing the potential trade-off for ethnic minorities between sticking to their own roots and labour market success. We find that the social environment of individuals and attachments to culture of origin has a strong association with identity choice. Our results also suggest that those non-whites who have preferences that accord with being 'oppositional' do experience an employment penalty.
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- Behncke, Stefanie, et al.
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A Caseworker Like Me - Does The Similarity Between The Unemployed and Their Caseworkers Increase Job Placements?
- 2010
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In: Economic Journal. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0013-0133 .- 1468-0297. ; 120:549, s. 1430-1459
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article examines whether the chances of job placements improve if the unemployed are counselled by caseworkers who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education and nationality. Based on an unusually informative dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their caseworkers, we find positive employment effects of about 3 percentage points if the caseworker and his unemployed client belong to the same social group. Coincidence in a single characteristic, e.g., same gender of caseworker and unemployed, does not lead to detectable effects on employment. These results, obtained by statistical matching methods, are confirmed by several robustness checks.
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- Boone, Jan, et al.
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Optimal unemployment insurance with monitoring and sanctions
- 2007
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In: Economic Journal. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0013-0133 .- 1468-0297. ; 117:518, s. 399-421
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article analyses the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort among the unemployed is not perfectly observable. We examine to what extent the optimal policy involves monitoring of search effort and benefit sanctions if observed search is deemed insufficient. We find that introducing monitoring and sanctions represents a welfare improvement for reasonable estimates of monitoring costs; this conclusion holds both relative to a system featuring indefinite payments of benefits and a system with a time limit on unemployment benefit receipt.
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- Ekholm, Karolina, et al.
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Location of R&D and high-tech production by vertically integrated multinationals
- 2007
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In: Economic Journal. - : Wiley: 24 months. - 1468-0297 .- 0013-0133. ; 117:518, s. 512-543
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This article extends the theory of multinational firms by allowing for agglomeration forces in firm-level activities such as R&D as well as in production. We develop a two-country general-equilibrium model where firms make separate choices about the location of R&D and production. There are R&D spillovers and a home-market effect creating incentives for firms to locate production in the relatively large market. For relatively weak R&D spillovers and intermediate trade costs, the smaller economy tends to specialise in R&D. While skilled labour may gain from hosting an agglomeration of R&D activities, unskilled labour.
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- Ellingsen, Tore, et al.
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Trust and truth
- 2009
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In: Economic Journal. - : Wiley: 24 months. - 1468-0297 .- 0013-0133. ; 119:534, s. 252-276
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)
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- Flodén, Martin
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Labour Supply and Saving Under Uncertainty
- 2006
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In: The Economic Journal. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1468-0297 .- 0013-0133. ; 116:513, s. 721-737
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article examines how variations in labour supply can be used to self-insure against wage uncertainty and the impact of such self-insurance on precautionary saving. The analytical framework is a two-period model with saving and labour-supply decisions, where preferences are consistent with balanced growth. The main findings are that (i) labour-supply flexibility raises precautionary saving when future wages are uncertain, and (ii) uncertainty about future wages raises current labour supply and reduces future labour supply.
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