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    Assessing the employment effects of vocational training using a one-factor model
    (Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2006) Andrén, Thomas; Andrén, Daniela
    Matching estimators use observed variables to adjust for differences between groups to eliminate sample selection bias. When minimum relevant information is not available, matching estimates are biased. If access to data on usually unobserved factors that determine the selection process is unavailable, other estimators should be used. This study advocates the one-factor control function estimator that allows for unobserved heterogeneity with factor-loading technique. Treatment effects of vocational training in Sweden are estimated with mean and distributional parameters, and then compared with matching estimates. The results indicate that unobservables slightly increase the treatment effect for those treated.
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    First Exits from the Swedish Labor Market Due to Disability
    (Springer, 2008) Andrén, Daniela
    Nowadays, with an increasingly aging population, an increasing size of the population on disability benefits, and an implicitly lower level of economic output and foregone tax revenue, disability has become a major public policy issue in many countries. Estimating both single risk and competing risks models on a Swedish longitudinal database, this study analyzes the risk of exit due to disability at a certain age, conditional on having remained in the labor force until that age. The explanatory variables had not identical coefficients across destination types. For example, the estimated single risk model shows that a higher level of education decreased the hazard to exit the labor market with a disability pension, while the estimated competing risks model suggests that a higher level of education decreases increased the hazard of exiting with a partial disability pension, but it decreased the hazard to exit with a full disability pension.
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    Long-term absenteeism due to sickness in Sweden. How long does it take and what happens after?
    (Springer, 2008) Andrén, Daniela
    In this paper, we analyze exits from long-term sickness spells in Sweden. Using spell data for more than 2500 people, aged 20-64 years during 1986-1991, and who had at least one sickness spell of at least 60 days during 1986-1989, the aim is to analyze the transition to different states, i.e., return to work, full disability pension, partial disability pension, and other exits from the labor force. Given the complexity of the exit decision, which encompasses both the individual’s choice, the medical evaluation and the decision of the insurance adjudicator, we will consider the outcome as being the result of two aspects of the exit processes: an aspect that governs the duration of a spell prior the decision to exit, and another that governs the type of exit. Therefore, the analysis will be done in two steps: First, we will analyze the duration of the sickness spells, and then we will analyze the process that governs the type of exit. The results indicate that both individual characteristics, and push factors, such as regional unemployment, are important for both components of the decision process.
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    'Never on a Sunday': Economic incentives and short-term sick leave in Sweden
    (Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2005) Andrén, Daniela
    Using a longitudinal data for about 1800 persons observed between 1986 and 1991, this study investigates the incentive effects on short-term sickness spells of two important regime changes in the social insurance system in Sweden implemented in 1987 and 1991. The results indicate that the rules influenced people’s decisions about when to report the beginning and ending of sickness spells. The 1991 reform, which reduced the replacement rate, had a stronger effect on reducing the duration of short-term absences than the 1987 reform, which restricted the payment of sickness cash benefit to only scheduled workdays.
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    What Contributes to Life Satisfaction in Transitional Romania?
    (Blackwell, 2006) Andrén, Daniela; Martinsson, Peter
    This paper analyzes life satisfaction in Romania in 2001, 12 years after the collapse of communism and the beginning of the transition into a market economy. Using a survey of 1770 individuals, we find that our results are very similar to studies in Western Europe and the US. Life satisfaction increases with housing standard, health status, economic situation, education, trusting other people, and living in the countryside, and decreases with rising unemployment. However, life satisfaction is lower than in Western countries with about 75% of the people in the sample being not at all satisfied or quite dissatisfied with their life in general. A policy discussion concludes the paper.