Department of Economics / Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik: Recent submissions
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Does Job Loss Shorten Life?
(2004-12-01)This paper examines the causal effect of job loss on overall and cause-specific mortality. Using linked employer-employee register data, we identified the job losses due to all establishment closures in Sweden in 1987 ... -
Shutdown Threats, Firm Fragmentation and the Skill Premium
(2007-09-12)This essay investigates the interaction between demand uncertainty and non-competitive labor markets where firm owners have the option to shut down and relocate. Workers cannot find new jobs instantly and therefore accept ... -
Market Imperfections and Wage Inequality
(2007-09-10)This paper investigates the relationship between various market imperfections and the skill premium. The model in this paper assumes perfectly competitive labor markets but distorted product and financial markets. The ... -
Risk, Occupational Choice, and Inequality
(2007-09-10)This essay presents a new theory explaining increased wage inequality. A standard endogenous growth model is augmented with occupational choice of highskill workers. Depending on the occupational choice, high-skill workers ... -
Fisheries Economics and 20 years with Marine Resource Economics: A Citation Analysis
(2007-09-05)This paper reviews the impact of articles published in the Marine Resource Economics and within the field of fisheries economics in general over the period 1954-2004. Specific attention is given to the years 1984-2004, ... -
Motives for Private Gift Transfers: Theory and Evidence from Romania
(2007-09-04)In many developing and transitional countries with limited public income redistribution, inter-household transfers in general, and gifts in particular, are sizable and very important. We use unique Romanian survey data ... -
Occupational gender composition and wages in Romania: from planned equality to market inequality
(2007-09-04)In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for more than 40 years, providing equal access to education and employment, and restricting pay differentiation based on gender. After its ... -
Pricing portfolio credit derivatives
(2007-08-31)This thesis consist of four papers on dynamic dependence modelling in portfolio credit risk. The emphasis is on valuation of portfolio credit derivatives. The underlying model in all papers is the same, but is split in ... -
Poverty dynamics in Ethiopia: state dependence
(2007-08-29)This paper focuses on the persistency of poverty in rural and urban households in Ethiopia by estimating dynamic probit models. Unobserved heterogeneity, first order state dependence and serially correlated error component ... -
A Dynamic Tobit Model of Female Labor Supply
(2007-08-29)A dynamic Tobit model is applied to longitudinal data to estimate the hours of work of married women in Sweden during 1992-2001. Hours of work are found to be negatively related to fertility. Other characteristics of married ... -
Preferences for redistribution - a cross-country study in fairness
(2007-08-01)This paper seeks to explain within as well as between country variation in preferences for redistribution in terms of self interest concerns, and an input based concept of fairness captured by the effects of beliefs about ... -
Island Status, Country Size and Institutional Quality in Former Colonies
(2007-06-19)The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of island status and country size on institutional quality, and to determine if these institutional effects can explain the relatively strong economic performance of ... -
The Determinants of Rural Child Labor: An Application to India
(2007-06-19)There are several factors that may contribute to the decision to send a child to work, such as poverty, market imperfections and parental preferences. The aim of this paper is to determine empirically the relative importance ... -
Efficient communication, common knowledge, and consensus
(2007-06-18)We study a model of pairwise communication in a finite population of Bayesian agents. We show that, in contrast with claims to the contrary in the existing literature, communication under a fair protocol may not lead to ... -
Aggregate information, common knowledge, and agreeing not to bet
(2007-06-18)I consider a gamble where the sum of the distributed payoffs is proportionate to the number of participants. I show that no subset of the population can agree to participate in the bet, if the size of the group is commonly ... -
A non-stationary perspective on the european and swedish business cycle
(2007-05-25)Business cycles, the ups and downs observed somewhat simultaneously in numerous macroeconomic variables in an economy and often measured using real GDP, are important and, despite much economic research, still incom- pletely ... -
Tenure Rights and Stewardship of Marine Resources: A co-managed Swedish shrimp fishery in a marine reserve
(2007-05-22)Economic theory predicts that open access leads to myopic behaviour of fishermen, while improving property rights leads to more long-term decisions of fishermen. In this study, we report the experiences from a co-managed ... -
Essays on Land Lease Markets, Productivity, Biodiversity, and Environmental Variability
(2007-05-09)This thesis consists of four papers. The titles and abstracts of the various essays are as follows. Paper 1: Tenure Insecurity, Transaction Costs in the Land Lease Market and Implications for Gendered Productivity ... -
Fairness, Reciprocity and Inequality: Experimental evidence from South Africa
(2007-05-09)This thesis consists of six papers, related to artifactual field experiments, conducted in South Africa. The main focus of the thesis is the effect of different forms of heterogeneity on cooperation and punishment within ... -
Essays on Asymmetric Information and Environmental Regulation through Disclosure
(2007-05-09)This dissertation delves into different aspects of a relatively new policy approach for industrial pollution control: the public dissemination of information by regulators regarding the environmental performance of firms. ...