The meeting is organized by the Nordic Center of Excellence: "Empirical Labor Economics", funded by The Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS). This center is a joint effort of four national research groups based in Aarhus, Bergen, Uppsala and Helsinki.

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Programme 

List of participants

Map of Reykjavik

Conference venue: Reykjavik University

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Papers:

Intermarriage Premiums Revisited: It’s probably who you are, not who you marry!
Lena Nekby

Effects of contracting out employment services: Evidence from a randomized experiment
Erik Grönqvist 

The Impact of Active Labour Market Policy on Post-Unemployment Outcomes: Evidence from a Social Experiment in Denmark
Sylvie Blasco

Early retirement policy in the presence of competing exit pathways: Lessons from pension reforms in Finland
Tomi Kyyrä

Entry jobs and future careers among native and immigrant youth
Olof Åslund

More Successful because of Math: Combining a Natural Experiment and a Structural Dynamic Model to Explore the Underlying Channels
Juanna Schrøter Joensen

Working in spite of High Taxes: On the Role of Culture in Explaining High Employment in the Nordic Countries
Axel Hall

Behavioral Economics of Education,  Some Puzzles, progress, and possibilities
Philip Oreopoulos

Labor Supply and Child Outcomes Following the Great Expansion of Child Care in Sweden
Per Pettersson-Lidbom
 

College Costs and the Marginal College Graduate
Jonathan Gemus

Timing of School Tracking and High School Dropout? The Effect of a School Reform
Kjell Vaage

Employer Competition and Wages: Lessons Learned from Swedish Teachers
Lena Hensvik

Breaking through the glass ceiling? Gender differences in promotion patterns into CEO and Vice-director positions in Danish companies
Mette Verner

Does Labour Diversity Affect Firm Performance?
Dario Pozzoli

Europe's Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses: Self-Selection and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration
Leah Platt Boustan