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2011:13: Paths to higher office: evidence from the Swedish Civil Service

Oskar Skans and Klaus J. Brösamle

2011:12: The study pace among college students before and after a student aid reform: some Swedish results

Daniel Avdic and Marie Gartell

2011:11: Socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on earnings: evidence from population-wide data on Swedish workers

Petter Lundborg, Martin Nilsson and Johan Vikström

2011:10: How important are caseworkers – and why? New evidence from Swedish employment offices

Jonas Lagerström

2011:9: Wage adjustment and productivity shocks

Mikael Carlsson, Julian Messina and Oskar Skans

2011:8: Evaluating microfoundations for aggregate price rigidities: evidence from matched firm-level data on product prices and unit labor cost

Mikael Carlsson and Oskar Skans

2011:7: The relative efficiency of active labour market policy: evidence from a social experiment and non-parametric methods

Johan Vikström, Michael Rosholm and Michael Svarer

2011:6: Bounds on treatment effects on transitions

Geert Ridder and Johan Vikström

2011:5: Critical periods during childhood and adolescence: a study of adult height among immigrant siblings

Gerard van den Berg, Petter Lundborg, Paul Nystedt and Dan-Olof Rooth

2011:4: The threat effect of participation in active labor market programs on job search behavior of migrants in Germany

Annette Bergemann, Marco Caliendo, Gerard van den Berg and Klaus Zimmermann

2011:3: For whose sake do couples relocate? Gender, career opportunities and couples’ internal migration in Sweden

Maria Brandén and Sara Ström

2011:2: What active labor market policy works in a recession?

Anders Forslund, Peter Fredriksson and Johan Vikström

2011:1: Assistant and auxiliary nurses in crisis times: earnings and employment following public sector job loss in the 1990s

Marcus Eliason

2010:14: Are boys discriminated in Swedish high schools?

Björn Tyrefors, Erik Höglin and Magnus Johannesson

2010:13: Bootstrap inference for K-nearest neighbour matching estimators

Xavier de Luna, Per Johansson and Sara Sjöstedt-de Luna

2010:12: The intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities

Erik Grönqvist, Björn Öckert and Jonas Vlachos

2010:11: Can sickness absence be affected by information meetings? Evidence from a social experiment

Per Johansson and Erica Lindahl

2010:10: The role of early-life conditions in the cognitive decline due to adverse events later in life

Gerard van den Berg, Dorly J.H. Deeg, Maarten Lindeboom and France Portrait

2010:9: Businesses, buddies and babies: social ties and fertility at work

Lena Hensvik and J Peter Nilsson

2010:8: Competition, wages and teacher sorting: four lessons learned from a voucher reform

Lena Hensvik

2010:7: Graded children – evidence of longrun consequences of school grades from a nationwide reform

Anna Sjögren

2010:6: Dynamic effects of mandatory activation of welfare participants

Anna Persson and Ulrika V ikman

2010:5: Does providing childcare to unemployed affect unemployment duration?

Ulrika Vikman

2010:4: The effect of own and spousal parental leave on earnings

Elly-Ann Johansson

2010:3: Insured by the partner?

Martin Olsson and Peter Skogman Thoursie

2010:2: Can adult education delay retirement from the labour market?

Xavier de Luna, Anders Stenberg and Olle Westerlund

2010:1: Treatment evaluation in the case of interactions within markets

Marc Ferracci, Gregory Jolivet and Gerard van den Berg

2009:32: Income support systems, labour supply incentives and employment – some cross-country evidence

Anders Forslund and Peter Fredriksson

2009:31: Labour supply incentives and income support systems in Estonia

Andres Võrk

2009:30: Labour supply incentives, income support systems and taxes in Sweden

Anders Forslund

2009:29: Welfare reforms and labour supply in Italy

Agar Brugiavini

2009:28: Institutions and labor market outcomes in the Netherlands

Pieter Gautier and Bas van der Klaauw

2009:27: How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?

Mike Brewer

2009:26: Income support systems, labor market policies and labor supply: the German experience

Marco Caliendo

2009:25: Local polynomial regression with truncated or censored response

Maria Karlsson, Eva Cantoni and Xavier de Luna

2009:24: Seeking similarity: how immigrants and natives manage at the labor market

Olof Åslund, Lena Hensvik and Oskar Skans

2009:23: Effects of outsourcing employment services: evidence from a randomized experiment

Helge Bennmarker, Erik Grönqvist and Björn Öckert

2009:22: How effective are unemployment benefit sanctions? Looking beyond unemployment exit

Patrick Arni, Rafael Lalive and Jan van Ours

2009:21: Age at migration and social integration

Olof Åslund, Anders Böhlmark and Oskar Skans

2009:20: Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement – evidence from a placement policy

Olof Åslund, Per-Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson and Hans Grönqvist

2009:19: Stability of college rankings - A study of relative earnings estimates applying different methods and models on Swedish data

Marie Gartell

2009:18: Monitoring job offer decisions, punishments, exit to work, and job quality

Gerard van den Berg and Johan Vikström

2009:17: Social stratification and out-of-school learning

Christian Andersson and Per Johansson

2009:16: Experimental evidence from intensified placement efforts among unemployed in Sweden

Pathric Hägglund

2009:15: Cluster sample inference using sensitivity analysis: the case with few groups

Johan Vikström

2009:14: The duration of paid parental leave and children’s scholastic performance

Qian Liu and Oskar Skans

2009:13: The effect of employer incentives in social insurance on individual wages

Johan Vikström

2009:12: Sensitivity analysis of the unconfoundedness assumption in observational studies

Xavier de Luna and Mathias Lundin

2009:11: Neighbourhoods, economic incentives and post compulsory education choices

Lars Lindvall

2009:10: Unemployment and subsequent earnings for Swedish college graduates: a study of scarring effects

Marie Gartell