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2014:7: Learning-by-doing in a highly skilled profession when stakes are high: evidence from advanced cancer surgery

Daniel Avdic, Petter Lundborg and Johan Vikström

2014:6: To meet or not to meet, that is the question - short-run effects of high-frequency meetings with case workers

Gerard van den Berg, Lene Back Kjaersgaard and Michael Rosholm

2014:5: From giving birth to paid labor: the effects of adult education for prime-aged mothers

Annette Bergemann and Gerard van den Berg

2014:4: Can you stay at home today? The relationship between economic dependence, parents’ occupation and care leave for sick children

Katarina Boye

2014:3: The long-term earnings consequences of general vs. specific training of the unemployed

Anders Stenberg and Olle Westerlund

2014:2: Who cares about the democratic mandate of education? A text analysis of the Swedish secondary education reform of 2009

Per Adman

2014:1: IPW estimation and related estimators for evaluation of active labor market policies in a dynamic setting

Johan Vikström

2013:27: Do payroll tax cuts raise youth employment?

Johan Egebark and Niklas Kaunitz

2013:26: Sanctions for young welfare recipients

Gerard van den Berg, Arne Uhlendorff and Joachim Wolff

2013:25: Adolescent predictors of unemployment and disability pension across the life course – a longitudinal study of selection in 49 321 Swedish men

Andreas Lundin and Tomas Hemmingsson

2013:24: The effect of summer jobs on post-schooling incomes

Moudud Alam, Kenneth Carling and Ola Nääs

2013:23: Networks and youth labor market entry

Lena Hensvik and Oskar Skans

2013:22: Time preferences and lifetime outcomes

Bart Golsteyn, Hans Grönqvist and Lena Lindahl

2013:21: Taxes and the choice of organizational form by entrepreneurs in Sweden

Karin Edmark and Roger Gordon

2013:20: The short- and long-term effects of school choice on student outcomes – evidence from a school choice reform in Sweden

Verena Wondratschek, Karin Edmark and Markus Frölich

2013:19: Intergenerational transmission of long-term sick leave

Malin Josephson, Nina Karnehed, Erica Lindahl and Helena Persson

2013:18: How long and how much? Learning about the design of wage subsidies from policy discontinuities

Anna Sjögren and Johan Vikström

2013:17: Does more general education reduce the risk of future unemployment? Evidence from labor market experiences during the Great Recession

Caroline Hall

2013:16: Self-employment and the local business cycle

Helena Svaleryd

2013:15: Social networks, employee selection and labor market outcomes

Lena Hensvik and Oskar Skans

2013:14: Political training as a pathway to power: the impact of participation in student union councils on candidate emergence

Martin Lundin, Oskar Skans and Pär Zetterberg

2013:13: Gender differences in preferences for health-related absences from work

Daniel Avdic and Per Johansson

2013:12: Earned income tax credits, unemployment benefits and wages: empirical evidence from Sweden

Helge Bennmarker, Lars Calmfors and Anna Seim

2013:11: Open borders, transport links and local labor markets

Olof Åslund and Mattias Engdahl

2013:10: Screening stringency in the disability insurance program

Per Johansson, Lisa Laun and Tobias Laun

2013:9: Gender differences in sickness absence and the gender division of family responsibilities

Nikolay Angelov, Per Johansson and Erica Lindahl

2013:8: Wages of childhood immigrants in Sweden – education, returns to education and overeducation

Katarina Katz and Torun Österberg

2013:7: Decomposing immigrant wage assimilation - the role of workplaces and occupations

Tove Eliasson

2013:6: Job practice: an evaluation and a comparison with vocational labour market training programmes

Anders Forslund, Linus Liljeberg and Leah von Trott zu Solz

2013:5: Effects of correlated covariates on the efficiency of matching and inverse probability weighting estimators for causal inference

Ronnie Pingel and Ingeborg Waernbaum

2013:4: Paid parental leave to immigrants: An obstacle to labor market entrance?

Ulrika Vikman

2013:3: Is the persistent gender gap in income and wages due to unequal family responsibilities?

Nikolay Angelov, Per Johansson and Erica Lindahl

2013:2: Employment protection and parental child care

Martin Olsson

2013:1: Examination behavior – Gender differences in preferences?

Lena Nekby, Peter Skogman Thoursie and Lars Vahtrik

2012:26: Workplace size and sickness absence transitions

Karl-Oskar Lindgren

2012:25: Endogenous tie formation mechanisms in a directed network generated by employee mobility

Francois Collet and Peter Hedström

2012:24: The value of earning for learning: performance bonuses in immigrant language training

Olof Åslund and Mattias Engdahl

2012:23: The economics of grief

Gerard van den Berg, Petter Lundborg and Johan Vikström

2012:22: Labour supply responses to paid parental leave

Arizo Karimi, Erica Lindahl and Peter Skogman Thoursie

2012:21: University entrance selection and age at admission

Cristina Wikström and Magnus Wikström

2012:20: Mothers’ income recovery after childbearing

Nikolay Angelov and Arizo Karimi

2012:19: Independent schools and long-run educational outcomes – evidence from Sweden´s large scale voucher reform

Anders Böhlmark and Mikael Lindahl

2012:18: The effect of age-targeted tax credits on retirement behavior

Lisa Laun

2012:17: Measuring workers' health and psychosocial work-environment on firm productivity

Fredrik Ödegaard and Pontus Roos

2012:16: The headmaster ritual: the importance of management for school outcomes

Anders Böhlmark, Erik Grönqvist and Jonas Vlachos

2012:15: Long-run effects of gestation during the Dutch hunger winter famine on labor market and hospitalization outcomes

Robert S. Scholte, Gerard van den Berg and Maarten Lindeboom

2012:14: Testing for nonparametric identification of causal effects in the presence of a quasi-instrument

Xavier de Luna and Per Johansson

2012:13: What is the right profile for getting a job? A stated choice experiment of the recruitment process

Stefan Eriksson, Per Johansson and Sophie Langenskiöld

2012:12: The intergenerational persistence of human capital: an empirical analysis of four generations

Mikael Lindahl, Mårten Palme, Sofia Sandgren Massih and Anna Sjögren

2012:11: Income inequality and health: lessons from a refugee residential assignment program

Hans Grönqvist, Per Johansson and Susan Niknami