Job Security and Work Absence : Evidence from a Natural Experiment (2006)
Lindbeck, Assar, Palme, Mårten, Persson, Mats
We analyze the consequences for sickness absence of a selective softening of job security legislation for small firms in Sweden in 2001. According to our differences-in-difference estimates,...
Alderman, Harold, Allen, Robert, Allingham, Michael, Altavilla, Carlo, Altenburg, Lutz, Anand, Paul, ...
Alderman, Harold, Allen, Robert, Allingham, Michael, Altavilla, Carlo, Altenburg, Lutz, Anand, Paul, ...
Hammarstedt , Mats, Palme, Mårten
We compare the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an overall convergence in average earnings between immigrants and natives. This convergence hides a...
Job Security and Work Absence: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Lindbeck, Assar, Palme, Mårten, Persson, Mats
We analyze the consequences for sickness absence of a selective softening of job security legislation for small firms in Sweden in 2001. According to our differences-in-difference estimates,...
Job Security and Work Absence: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Lindbeck, Assar, Palme, Mårten, Persson, Mats
We analyze the consequences for sickness absence of a selective softening of job security legislation for small firms in Sweden in 2001. According to our differences-in-difference estimates,...
Assessing the effect of public policy on worker absenteeism
We analyze the effect of economic incentives on worker absenteeism, using panel data on work absence for 1990 and 1991 with a sample of 1,396 Swedish blue-collar workers. During this period Sweden...
The Timing of Retirement and Social Security Reforms: Measuring Individual Welfare Changes
Karlström, Anders, Palme, Mårten, Svensson, Ingemar
We develop a compensating variation (CV) measure of individual welfare change from reforms of social security schemes. Within a random utility framework for modeling the individual retirement...
Pathways to Retirement and Retirement Incentives in Sweden
Palme, Mårten, Svensson, Ingemar
We use a large panel data set (LINDA) to describe retirement behaviour in Sweden. The importance of different pathways to retirement is analysed. Survival functions for labor force participation of...
Educational reform, ability and family background
In this paper we evaluate the impact of a major school reform, that took place in the 1950s in Sweden, on educational attainment and earnings. The reform, which has many common elements with reforms...
Ability, parental background and educational policy: empirical evidence from a social experiment
Following the great expansion of secondary education in the United States between 1910 and 1940, Sweden was one of the first Western European countries to attempt such an expansion by increasing the...
The effect of a social experiment in education
The impact of compulsory schooling laws as well as the abolition of early selection by ability reamin important issues in the educational debate. These issues were the focus of a major education...
Assessing the effect of schooling on earnings using a social experiment
The impact of compulsory schooling laws as well as the abolition of early selection by ability remain important issues in the educational debate. These issues were the focus of a major education...
Social Interaction and Sickness Absence
Lindbeck, Assar, Palme, Mårten, Persson, Mats
Does the average level of sickness absence in a neighborhood affect individual sickness absence through social interaction on the neighborhood level? To answer this question, we consider evidence of...
Parental Income, Lifetime Income and Mortality
Palme, Mårten, Sandgren, Sofia
This paper studies the relation between parental economic resources and mortality later in life. We use a data set on a cohort of individuals born in 1928 in the county of Malmö in southern Sweden,...
Karlström, Anders, Palme, Mårten, Svensson, Ingemar
We study the effect of a reform of the Swedish disability insurance (DI) program whereby the special eligibility rules for workers in the age group 60 to 64 were abolished. First, we use a...
Mats Hammarstedt, Mårten Palme
We compare the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an overall convergence in average earnings between immigrants and natives. This convergence hides a...
Job Security and Work Avbsence: Evidence form a Natural Experiment
Lindbeck, Assar, Palme, Mårten, Persson, Mats
We analyze the consequences for sickness absence of a selective softening of job security legislation for small firms in Sweden in 2001. According to our differences-in-difference estimates,...
The Effect of Economic Incentives on Worker Absenteeism: An Empirical Study Using Swedish Micro Data
The effect of economic incentives on absenteeism in Sweden is examined. Based on a utility funcion, frequently used in labour supply studies, absenteeism is modelled as an individual day-to-day...
In 1991 a major tax reform was implemented in Sweden. This study compares the income equalization (income redistribution), vertical and horizontal equity properties of the pre- and post-reform tax...
Changes in the Rate of Return to Education in Sweden: 1968-1991
Palme, Mårten, Wright, Robert E.
This paper estimates and documents changes in the rate of return to education in Sweden between 1968 and 1991. Both the "quantity" (i.e.) years of schooling completed) and "quality" (i.e. education...
Earnings Mobility and Distribution: Comparing Statistical Models on Swedish Data
There are at least two instrumental motives for studying earnings mobility. First, to extend the analysis of income distribution to more than one time period. Second, to predict future individual...
A Decade of Tax and Benefit Reforms in Sweden - Effects on Labour Supply, Welfare and Inequality
Aronsson, Thomas, Palme, Mårten
Sweden has experienced a sequence of tax and benefit reforms during the last decade. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate these extensive reforms from the points of view of labour supply, welfare...
Income Inequality and Income Mobility in the Scandinavian Countries Compared to the United States
Aaberge, Rolf, Björklund, Anders, Jäntti, Markus, Palme, Mårten, Pedersen, Peder, Smith, Nina, ...
This paper compares income inequality and income mobility in the Scandinavian countries and the United States during the 1980s. The results demonstrate that inequality is greater in the United states...
A Dynamic Discrete Choice Model of blue Collar Worker Absenteeism in Sweden 1991
Cassel, Claes-M., Johansson, Per, Palme, Mårten
The effect of economic variables on the probability of being absent is studied using panel data for a sample of 1,056 blue collar workers covering day-to-day data for the time period of one year...
Social Security, Occupational Pensions, and Retirement in Sweden
Palme, Mårten, Svensson, Ingemar
This paper provides an overview of the Swedish social security system and its impact on individual retirement behavior. First, we give some historical facts, as well as a more detailed description of...
Björklund, Anders, Palme, Mårten
The generalised entropy measure is applied to decompose overall income inequality over several years into one part showing inequality of long-run (permanent) income and one part showing variability...
Assessing the Effect of Economic Incentives on Incidence and Duration of Work Absence
Broström, Göran, Johansson, Per, Palme, Mårten
The incidence and duration of work absence spells for a sample of Swedish blue collar workers in 1991 are analyzed using the Kaplan-Meier estimator, discrete time hazard regression as well as...
Assessing the effect of a compulsory sickness insurance on worker absenteeism
The effect of economic incentives on worker absenteeism is analyzed using panel data on work absence behavior for each day during 1990 and 1991 (i.e. 730 observations in the time dimension) for a...
Assessing the Effect of Schooling on Earnings Using a Social Experiment
The implementation of the 1950 Swedish comprehensive school reform was preceded by a unique social experiment. During this experiment between 1949 and 1962 the new school system was implemented in...
Income Security Programs and Retirement in Sweden
Palme, Mårten, Svensson, Ingemar
We examine the effects of economic incentives inherent in pension schemes and income security programs on retirement behavior in the Swedish labor market. We use social security wealth and three...
The Evolution of Income Inequality During the Rise of the Swedish Welfare State 1951 to 1973
Björklund, Anders, Palme, Mårten
We analyse the change in family gross income inequality between 1951 and 1973. We use two new samples of the Swedish population from 1951 and 1956 containing tax register data, and compare the...
Estimating Compensating Wage Differentials from Worker Mobility
We estimate the effects of the implementation of a compulsory work injury insurance in Sweden in 1978 on compensating wage differentials. This involves two steps. First, we investigate if there are...
Causal effects of Economic Incentives on Absence from Work: A Duration Analysis Using Fixed Effects
Broström, Göran, Johansson, Per, Palme, Mårten
The incidence and duration of work-absence spells for a sample of Swedish blue-collar workers in 1990 and 1991 are analyzed using the Kaplan-Meier non-parametric estimator, discrete-time hazard...
Economic incentives and gender differences in work absence behavior
Broström, Göran, Palme, Mårten, Johansson, Per
We estimate a labor supply model on a random sample of Swedish male and female blue collar workers to study the effect of economic incentives on work absence behavior. We observe work absence for...
Moral hazard and sickness insurance: Empirical evidence from a sickness insurance reform in Sweden
We use a reform of Sweden’s sickness insurance system as a source of exogenous variation to analyse the presence of moral hazard. As a result of the reform, the replacement level was reduced from...
Parental Income, Lifetime Income, and Mortality
This article studies the relation between parental economic resources and mortality later in life. We use a data set on a cohort of individuals born in 1928 in the county of Malmö in southern...
Karlström, Anders, Palme, Mårten, Svensson, Ingemar
We study the effect of a reform of the Swedish disability insurance (DI) program whereby the special eligibility rules for workers in the age group 60 to 64 were abolished. First, we use a...
The Evolution of Income Inequality During the Rise of the Swedish Welfare State1951 to 1973
Anders Björklund, Mårten Palme
We analyse the change in family gross income inequality between 1951 and 1973. We use two new samples of the Swedish population from 1951 and 1956 containing tax register data, and compare the...
Social Interaction and Sickness Absence
Lindbeck, Assar, Palme, Mårten, Persson, Mats
Is the sickness absence of an individual affected by the sickness absence behavior of the neighbors? Well-known methodological problems, in particular the so-called reflection problem, arise when...