Browsing Working papers by Author "Andrén, Thomas"
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A Structural Model of Childcare, Welfare, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers
Andrén, Thomas (2002)This paper considers the simultaneous relationship of the single mother's decision to choose paid childcare, welfare participation and labor supply, and estimates a structural model that allows for a free error covariance. ... -
ASSESSING THE EMPLOYMENT EFFECTS OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING USING A ONE-FACTOR MODEL
Daniela Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas (2004)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 ... -
Assessing the Employment Effects of Labor Market Training Programs in Sweden
Andrén, Thomas; Andrén, Daniela (2002)Several studies have examined the effects of training programs on employment. Most of them assume that the effects of training are constant for all potential trainees. We use an econometric framework that allows studying ... -
Income Effects from Labor Market Training Programs in Sweden During the 80's and 90's
Gustafsson, Björn; Andrén, Thomas (2002)Swedish labor market programs appear large from an international perspective, yet their consequences are not fully investigated and understood. In this paper we estimate a switching regression model with training effect ... -
Occupational gender composition and wages in Romania: from planned equality to market inequality
Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas (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 ... -
Part-Time Sick Leave as a Treatment Method?
Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas (2008-10-09)This paper analyzes the effects of being on part-time sick leave compared to full-time sick leave on the probability of recovering (i.e., returning to work with full recovery of lost work capacity). Using a discrete ... -
The Persistence of Welfare Participation
Andrén, Thomas (2007-09-28)Welfare persistence is estimated in and compared between Swedish-born and foreignborn households. This is done within the framework of a time-stationary dynamic discrete choice model controlling for the initial condition ...