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2005:10: External effects of education on earnings: Swedish evidence using matched employee-establishment data

Gunnar Isacsson

2005:9: Labor market prospects search intensity and the transition from college to work

Bas van der Klaauw, Aico van Vuuren and Peter Berkhout

2005:8: Ethnic enclaves and welfare cultures - quasi-experimental evidence

Olof Åslund and Peter Fredriksson

2005:7: School choice and segregation: evidence from an admission reform

Martin Söderström and Roope Uusitalo

2005:6: Separating uncertainty from heterogeneity in life cycle earnings

Flavio Cunha, James Heckman and Salvador Navarro

2005:5: Effects of decentralization on school resources

Åsa Ahlin and Eva Mörk

2005:4: Covariate selection for non-parametric estimation of treatment effects

Xavier de Luna and Ingeborg Waernbaum

2005:3: Labor market discrimination and racial differences in premarket factors

Pedro Carneiro, James Heckman and Dimitriy Masterov

2005:2: Does cooperation improve implementation? Central-local governnment relations in active labour market policy in Sweden

Martin Lundin

2005:1: Personnel training: a theoretical and empirical review

Thomas Ericson

2004:19: Stepping-stones for the unemployed: The effect of temporary jobs on the duration until regular work

Marloes Zijl, Gerard van den Berg and Arjan Heyma

2004:18: Employment subsidies - A fast lane from unemployment to work?

Anders Forslund, Per Johansson and Linus Lindqvist

2004:17: The knowledge lift: The Swedish adult education program that aimed to eliminate low worker skill levels

James Albrecht, Gerard van den Berg and Susan Vroman

2004:16: Shifting attitudes and the labor market of minorities: Swedish experiences after 9-11

Olof Åslund and Dan-Olof Rooth

2004:15: The effects of wage compression on training: Swedish empirical evidence

Thomas Ericson

2004:14: Scarring effects of the first labour market experience: A sibling based analysis

Oskar Skans

2004:13: Human capital is the key to the IT productivity paradox

Gudmundur Gunnarsson, Erik Mellander and Eleni Savvidou

2004:12: Survey non-response and unemployment duration

Gerard van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom and Peter Dolton

2004:11: Public employment and the double role of bureaucrats

Matz Dahlberg and Eva Mörk

2004:10: Moral hazard and sickness insurance: Empirical evidence from a sickness insurance reform in Sweden

Per Johansson and Mårten Palme

2004:9: Non-parametric adjustment for covariates when estimating a treatment effect

Eva Cantoni and Xavier de Luna

2004:8: Harmonizing unemployment and sickness insurance: Why (not)?

Laura Larsson

2004:7: Early indication of program performance: The case of a Swedish temporary employment program

Laura Larsson and Oskar Skans

2004:6: Income inequality and crime: The case of Sweden

Anna Nilsson

2004:5: The role of youth programmes in the transition from school to work

Lena Schröder

2004:4: Does tax evasion affect unemployment and educational choice?

Ann-Sofie Kolm and Birthe Larsen

2004:3: Decentralisation of bargaining and manufacturing employment: Sweden 1970-96

Anders Forslund and Thomas Lindh

2004:2: Competition between employed and unemployed job applicants: Swedish evidence

Stefan Eriksson and Jonas Lagerström

2004:1: Statistically assisted programme selection - International experiences and potential benefits for Switzerland

Markus Frölich, Michael Lechner and Heidi Steiger

2003:19: A simple procedure for the evaluation of treatment effects on duration variables

Jaap Abbring and Gerard van den Berg

2003:18: Empircial labor search models: A survey

Zvi Eckstein and Gerard van den Berg

2003:17: Selection bias, comparative advantage and heterogeneous returns to education: Evidence from China in 2000

James Heckman and Xuesong Li

2003:16: Earnings effects of adult secondary education in Sweden

Erika Ekström

2003:15: Social interactions and unemployment

Peter Hedström, Ann-Sofie Kolm and Yvonne Åberg

2003:14: Crime, unemployment and labor market programs in turbulent times

Anna Nilsson and Jonas Agell

2003:13: The effect of schooling and ability on achievement test scores

Karsten T Hansen, James Heckman and Kathleen Mullen

2003:12: The effect of search frictions on wages

Gerard van den Berg and Aico van Vuuren

2003:11: Recruitment to sheltered employment: Evidence from Samhall, a Swedish state-owned company

Per Skedinger and Barbro Widerstedt

2003:10: The determinants of participation in a social program: Evidence from a prototypical job training program

James Heckman and Jeffrey Smith

2003:9: Estimating distributions of treatment effects with an application to the returns to schooling and measurement of the effects of uncertainty on college choice

Pedro Carneiro, Karsten Hansen and James Heckman

2003:8: Employer-sponsored training in stabilisation and growth policy perspectives

Christina Håkanson, Satu Johanson and Erik Mellander

2003:7: Do when and where matter? Initial labor market conditions and immigrant earnings

Olof Åslund and Dan-Olof Rooth

2003:6: Labour market programmes and geographical mobility: migration and commuting among programme participants and openly unemployed

Urban Lindgren and Olle Westerlund

2003:5: Improving incentives in unemployment insurance: A review of recent research

Peter Fredriksson and Bertil Holmlund

2003:4: Using matching, instrumental variables and control functions to estimate economic choice models

James Heckman and Salvador Navarro

2003:3: Employment, mobility, and active labor market programs

Peter Fredriksson and Per Johansson

2003:2: The impact of active labor market programs on municipal services

Eva Mörk

2003:1: Program evaluation and random program starts

Peter Fredriksson and Per Johansson

2002:23: The value of a third year in upper secondary vocational education - Evidence from a piloting scheme

Erika Ekström

2002:22: A cross-country comparison of labor market frictions

Geert Ridder and Gerard van den Berg