Per-Anders Edin Curriculum Vitae Sysslomansgatan 40C 752 27 Uppsala 2008-03-04 Phone: 018-502217 (home) 018-4711097 (work, UU) 018-4717080 (work, IFAU) Fax: 018-4711478 e-mail: Per-Anders.Edin@nek.uu.se Born April 7, 1957 Education BSc in Economics, Uppsala University, 1983. PhD in Economics, Uppsala University, 1989. Current position Professor of Industrial Relations, Department of Economics, Uppsala University. Other academic affiliations Research Economist, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Cambridge, U.S.A. Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London. Researcher, Office for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU), Uppsala. PUBLICATIONS Books Individual Consequences of Plant Closures, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Oeconomica Upsaliensia 15, Uppsala, 1989. (dissertation) Arbetsmarknaden (The Labor Market), SNS Förlag, Stockholm, 1996, 2 nd revised edition 2000. (With Anders Björklund, Bertil Holmlund and Eskil Wadensjö.) Den svenska skolan effektiv och jämlik?, Välfärdspolitiska rådets rapport 2003, SNS Förlag, 2003. (With Anders Björklund, Peter Fredriksson and Alan Krueger.) The Market Comes to Education in Sweden: An Evaluation of Sweden s Surprising School Reforms, Russell Sage Foundation, 2005. (With Anders Björklund, Melissa Clark, Peter Fredriksson and Alan Krueger.) Articles in international journals "Taxes and Individual Investor Response: Evidence from Swedish Tax Return Data", Public Finance XXXXIV, 183-203, 1989. (With Jonas Agell.) "Unemployment Duration and Competing Risks: Evidence from Sweden", Scandinavian Journal of Economics 91, 639-653, 1989. "Marginal Taxes and the Asset Portfolios of Swedish Households", Scandinavian Journal of Economics 92, 47-64, 1990. (With Jonas Agell.)
"Moving Costs and Housing Demand: Are Recent Movers Really in Equilibrium?", Journal of Public Economics 44, 299-320, 1991. (With Peter Englund.) "Political Determinants of Budget Deficits: Coalition Effects versus Minority Effects", European Economic Review 35, 1597-1603, 1991. (With Henry Ohlsson.) "Time Aggregation and the Distributional Shape of Unemployment Duration", Journal of Applied Econometrics 7, 5-30, 1992. (With Reinhold Bergström.) "Inter-Industry Wage Differentials: Evidence from Sweden and a Comparison with the United States", American Economic Review 82, 1342-1349, December 1992. (With Johnny Zetterberg.) "Devaluation Risk in Target Zones: Evidence from the Nordic Countries", Economic Journal 103, 161-175, January 1993. (With Anders Vredin.) "The Swedish Boom to Bust Cycle: Tax Reform, Consumption and Asset Structure", Swedish Economic Policy Review 2, 271-314, 1995. (With Jonas Agell and Lennart Berg.) "Unemployment Duration, Unemployment Benefits, and Labor Market Programs in Sweden", Journal of Public Economics 59, 313-334, 1996. (With Kenneth Carling, Anders Harkman and Bertil Holmlund.) Career Interruptions and Subsequent Earnings: A Reexamination Using Swedish Data, Journal of Human Resources 34, 294-311, 1999. (With James Albrecht, Marianne Sundström and Susan Vroman.) Emigration of Immigrants and Measures of Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence From Sweden, Swedish Economic Policy Review 7, 163-204, 2000. (With Robert LaLonde and Olof Åslund.) A Cross-Country Comparison of Attitudes Towards Mothers Working and Their Actual Labor Market Experience, Labour 14, 591-607, 2000. (With James Albrecht and Susan Vroman.) Swimming with the Tide: Solidarity Wage Policy and the Gender Earnings Gap, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 104, 49-67, 2002. (With Katarina Richardsson.) Industry Wage Differentials, Efficiency Wages, and Method of Pay, Review of Economics and Statistics 84, 2002. (With Paul Chen.) Ethnic Enclaves and the Economic Success of Immigrants Evidence from a Natural Experiment, Quarterly Journal of Economics 118, 2003. (With Peter Fredriksson and Olof Åslund.) Settlement Policies and the Economic Success of Immigrants, Journal of Population Economics 17, 133-155, 2004. (With Peter Fredriksson and Olof Åslund.) Trade, Earnings and Mobility - Swedish Evidence, Oxford Economic Papers 56, 231-241, 2004. (With Peter Fredriksson and Per Lundborg.) Time Out of Work and Skill Depreciation, Industrial and Labor Relations Review 61, 163-180, 2008. (With Magnus Gustavsson.) "Peers, Neighborhoods, and Immigrant Student Achievement Evidence from a Placement Policy", American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3(2), 67-95, 2011. (with Olof Åslund, Peter Fredriksson and Hans Grönqvist)
Articles in conference volumes "Lönestruktur och rörlighet på den svenska arbetsmarknaden" (Wage Structure and Mobility in the Swedish Labor Market), in A. Klevmarken et al., Tid och råd - Om hushållens ekonomi, IUI, Stockholm, 1990. (With Bertil Holmlund and Johnny Zetterberg.) "Unemployment, Vacancies and Labour Market Programmes: Swedish Evidence", in F. Padoa-Schioppa (ed.), Mismatch and Labour Mobility, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991. (With Bertil Holmlund.) "Wage Behavior and Labor Market Programs in Sweden: Evidence from Micro Data", in T. Tachibanaki (ed.) Labour Market and Economic Performance: Europe, Japan and the USA, Macmillan Press, London, 1994. (With Bertil Holmlund and Thomas Östros.) "The Swedish Wage Structure: The Rise and Fall of Solidarity Wage Policy?", in R. Freeman and L. Katz (ed.) Differences and Changes in Wage Structures, University of Chicago Press, 1995. (With Bertil Holmlund.) "Wage Policy and Restructuring: The Swedish Labor Market since 1960", in R. Freeman, R. Topel and B. Swedenborg (ed.) The Welfare State in Transition, Univeristy of Chicago Press, 1997. (With Robert Topel.) Sectoral Structural Change and the State of the Labor Market in Sweden, in H. Siebert (ed.) Structural Change and Labor Market Flexibility. Experience in Selected OECD Economies, Mohr Siebeck, 1997. (With Bertil Holmlund.) The Swedish Youth Labor Market in Boom and Depression, in D. Blachflower and R. Freeman (ed.) Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries, University of Chicago Press, 2000. (With Anders Forslund and Bertil Holmlund.) Wage Dispersion Between and Within Plants: Sweden 1985 2000, forthcoming in E. Lazear and K. Shaw (eds.) An International Comparison of the Structure of Wages, University of Chicago Press, 2008. (With Bertil Holmlund and Oskar Nordström Skans.) Other publications "Skattesystemet och hushållens portföljval" (The Tax System and Household Portfolio Choice), in J. Agell, P.-A. Edin and B. Kashefi, Hushållens portföljval och förmögenhetsfördelning, Expertrapport till Spardelegationens sparundersökning, Allmänna förlaget, Stockholm, 1988. (With Jonas Agell.) "Skattesystemet, hushållens portföljval och prisbildningen på kapitalmarknaden" (The Tax System, Household Portfolio Choice and Asset Market Pricing), in SOU 1989:33, Reformerad inkomstbeskattning, del IV, Allmänna förlaget, Stockholm, 1989. (With Jonas Agell.) "Avkastning och efterfrågan på högre utbildning", Ekonomisk Debatt 21, 31-45, 1993. (With Bertil Holmlund. In English: "Wage Differentials and the Demand for Education in Sweden", Studies of Higher Education and Research 1992:4, Council for Studies of Higher Education, Stockholm.) "Effekter av anställningsskydd" (The Effects of Employment Security), in SOU 1993:32, Ny anställningsskyddslag. Delbetänkande av 1992 års arbetsrättskommitte, Allmänna förlaget, Stockholm, 1993. (With Bertil Holmlund.) "Utbildningsnivå och utbildningsavkastning i Sverige" (The Level of Education and the Returns to Education in Sweden), in Studier av svensk
utbildning, Ekonomiska Rådets Årsbok 1993, Stockholm, 1994. (With Peter Fredriksson and Bertil Holmlund.) Arbetslösheten och arbetsmarknadens funktionssätt (Unemployment and the Functioning of the Labor Market), bilaga 8 till 1994 års Långtidsutredning, Stockholm, 1994. (With Bertil Holmlund.) "Gender Wage Differentials, Discrimination and Work Effort Across Method of Pay", in B. Holmlund (red.), Pay, Productivity, and Policy. Essays on Wage Behaviour in Sweden, FIEF, Stockholm, 1994. (With Paul Chen.) Lönestruktur och strukturomvandling (The Wage Structure and Structural Change), in Välfärdsstat i omvandling, SNS, Stockholm, 1995. (With Robert Topel.) "Avregleringen och hushållens skulder" (Deregulation and Household Debt), in Bankerna under krisen. Fyra rapporter till Bankkriskommittén, Fritzes, Stockholm, 1995. (With Peter Englund and Erik Ekman.) Arbetslöshet och anställningsskydd (Unemployment and Employment Security), Ekonomisk Debatt 24, 415-428, 1996. En reformerad arbetslöshetsförsäkring (Reforming Unemployment Insurance), in J. Johannesson and E. Wadensö (ed.) 28 recept mot arbetslösheten, SNS Förlag, 1997. Lönespridning och kvinnors löner (Wage Disperson and Female Wages), i Könsneutral lönepolitik - en utopi?, FRN, 1997. Kvinnors och mäns löner - förvärvsavbrottens betydelse (The Wages of Females and Males The Role of Work Interruptions), in SOU 1997:136 Kvinnors och mäns löner - varför så olika?, Fritzes, Stockholm, 1997. (With James Albrecht, Marianne Sundström and Susan Vroman.) Lönepolitik, lönespridning och löneskillnader mellan män och kvinnor (Wage Policy, Wage Dispersion and the Gender Wage Gap), in SOU 1997:136 Kvinnors och mäns löner - varför så olika?, Fritzes, Stockholm, 1997. (With Katarina Richardson.) Inter-Regional Migration in Sweden in M. Heiborn, Essays on Demographic Factors and Housing Markets, PhD dissertation, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 1998. (With Marie Heiborn and Christian Nilsson.) Invandrare på 1990-talets arbetsmarknad (Immigrants in the Labor Market during the 1990s), in SOU 2001:54 Ofärd I välfärden, Fritzes, Stockholm, 2001. (With Olof Åslund.) Bostadssegregationens effekter på flyktingbarns skolresultat, Sökelys på arbeidslivet, 3779-388, 2009. Working papers Gender Wage Differentials and Interrupted Work Carrers: Swedish Evidence, Working Paper 1992:17, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 1992. (With Jenny Nynabb.) Debt and Housing over the Life Cycle: The Effects of Deregulating the Swedish Credit Market, paper presented at the NBER Summer Institute Conference on Ageing, Cambrigde, 26-28 July, 1993. (With Peter Englund and Erik Nilsson.)
"Lönestruktur och sysselsättningsproblem" (The Wage Structure and Employment), paper presented at Arbetarrörelsens ekonomiska råd, May 1994. (With Bertil Holmlund.) Unemployment and Wage Inequality in Sweden, paper presented at the conference Unemployment and Wage Inequality - Is there a Tradeoff? in honor of Assar Lindbeck, Stockholm, June 1995. (With Anders Harkman and Bertil Holmlund.) Tax Reform, Consumption, and Asset Structure, Tax Reform Evaluation Report No. 16, Uppsala, August 1995. (With Jonas Agell and Lennart Berg.) Escaping Long-Term Unemployment in Sweden, mimeo, May 1998. (With Anders Harkman, Bertil Holmlund and Hans Söderberg.) LINDA - Longitudinal INdividual DAta for Sweden, Working Paper 2000:19, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 2000. (With Peter Fredriksson.) Blind Dates: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Discrimination, Working Paper 2006:4, IFAU, 2006. (With Jonas Lagerström.)