Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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Differences in Wage Distributions between Natives, Non-Refugees, and Refugees
(2008-09-15)This study examines differences in wage distributions between natives, non-refugees, and refugees in Sweden. We find that the wage differentials between natives and non-refugee immigrants decrease across the distribution, ... -
Part-Time Penalty in Sweden: Evidence from Quantile Regression
(2008-09-15)This study analyzes the part-time penalty in Sweden using quantile regression. We find that the estimated part-time wage differential is negative across the whole wage distribution. OLS overestimates the part-time penalty ... -
The Part-Time Penalty for Natives and Immigrants
(2008-09-15)This study examines the part-time penalty for natives and immigrants in Sweden. We estimate an endogenous switching regression model, and the results indicate that there is evidence of self-selection into part-time and ... -
Nationalism and Government Effectiveness
(2008-09-02)The literature on nation-building and nationalism suggests that nation-building affects economic and political performance, mitigates the problems associated with ethnic hetero- geneity, but that nationalism, an indicator ... -
Essays on Social Distance, Institutions, and Economic Growth
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Offshoring and Occupational Wages: Some empirical evidence
(2008-08-05)Offshoring has changed the pattern of international competition; labor in specific occupations rather than whole firms and sectors are now facing competition. Accordingly, wages in offshorable occupations are affected in ... -
Semiparametric surveillance of outbreaks
(2008-07-02)The detection of a change from a constant level to a monotonically increasing (or decreasing) regression is of special interest for the detection of outbreaks of, for example, epidemics. A maximum likelihood ratio statistic ... -
Semiparametric estimation of outbreak regression
(2008-07-02)A regression may be constant for small values of the independent variable (for example time), but then a monotonic increase starts. Such an “outbreak” regression is of interest for example in the study of the outbreak of ... -
Swedish CO2-Emissions 1993 - 2006 – An Application of Decomposition Analysis and Some Methodological Insights
(2008-06-24)This study undertakes a decomposition analysis to identify the drivers of carbon emissions change in the Swedish business and industry sectors 1993 - 2006. On aggregate, energy intensity decreased, but this does not seem ... -
Determinants of Institutional Quality in Sub-Saharan African Countries
(2008-06-19)In this study, a number of factors have been considered as potential determinants of institutional quality in Sub- Saharan African countries. The empirical analysis has shown that historical factors such as state ... -
Do you do what you say or do you do what you say others do?
(2008-06-12)We design a donations vs. own money choice experiment comparing three different treatments. In two of the treatments the pay-offs are hypothetical. In the first of these, a short cheap talk script was used, and subjects ... -
"Household specialisation and gender equality in transition. Paid and unpaid work of women and men in Soviet and post-Soviet Taganrog"
(2008-06-09)Using unique survey data from the Russian industrial city Taganrog in 1989 and 1998, we analyse changes in the gender division of labour among gainfully employed women and men, pre- and post-transition. In Soviet Taganrog, ... -
PRIVATE PENSION SAVINGS: GENDER, MARITAL STATUS AND WEALTH - EVIDENCE FROM SWEDEN IN 2002
(2008-05-27)During the last decades, people in Sweden have changed their savings behavior towards long-term savings such as tax-deferred pension accounts. This indicates that the tax-deferrable pension savings will play a larger roll ... -
Can we do policy recommendations from a framed field experiment? The case of coca cultivation in Colombia
(2008-05-27)Laboratory experiments are potentially effective tools for studying behavior in settings where little or no information would otherwise exist such as participation in illicit activities. However, using laboratory experiments ... -
Essays on Epistemology and Evolutionary Game Theory
(2008-05-27)This thesis has two parts, one consisting of three independent papers in epistemology (Chapters 1-3) and another one consisting of a single paper in evolutionary game theory (Chapter 4): (1) “Knowing who speaks when: A ... -
Four Essays on Interhousehold Transfers and Institutions in Post-Communist Romania
(2008-05-27)This thesis consists of four essays related to different social and economic aspects in post-communist Romania: Paper 1: Motives for Private Gift Transfers: Theory and Evidence from Romania In many developing and ... -
It is better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix: a study of concern for relative standing in rural China
(2008-05-22)This paper examines the concern for relative standing among rural households in China. We use a survey-experimental method to measure to what extent poor Chinese farmers care about their relative income and find that the ... -
Retirement Planning: Portfolio Choice for Long-Term Investors
(2008-05-22)This thesis consists of four papers. Common to the first three papers is the framework for analy- sis; a life-cycle model of a borrowing-constrained individual’s consumption and portfolio choices in the presence of ... -
“Institutions and Inequality”
(2008-05-20)This paper investigates the hypothesis that the association between property rights institutions and economic performance is weaker in countries with high social divisions, as measured in terms of ethnic fractionalisation ... -
The Behavioural Economics of Climate Change
(2008-05-19)This paper attempts to bring some central insights from behavioural economics into the economics of climate change. In particular, it discusses (i) implications of prospect theory, the equity premium puzzle and time ...