Dan‐olof Rooth
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3590308 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Dan‐olof Rooth |
| PRENOMES | Dan‐olof |
| SOBRENOME | Rooth |
| ASSINATURA | ROOTH D O |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Linnaeus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8887-5677 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 201 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Disability, gender, and hiring discrimination
This article examines disability discrimination in the hiring process and explores variation in how the intersection of disability and gender shapes employers’ hiring behavior. We use data from a field experiment in which 2,048 job applications with randomly assigned information about disability were sent to Swedish employers with vacancies. Nondisabled applicants received 33% more callbacks than similarly qualified wheelchair users despite apply…
The intergenerational transmission of human capital
We provide new evidence on some of the mechanisms reflected in the intergenerational transmission of human capital. Applying both an adoption and a twin design to rich data from the Swedish military enlistment, we show that greater parental education increases sons’ cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. The estimates are in many cases similar across research designs and suggest that a substantial part of the effect of paren…
The health-schooling relationship
Employer Attitudes, the Marginal Employer, and the Ethnic Wage Gap
In most EU countries, ethnic minorities have lower wages than does the ethnic majority. To what extent these wage gaps are the result of prejudice toward ethnic minority workers is virtually unknown. The authors examine the role that prejudice plays in the creation of the ethnic wage gap in one of Europe's most egalitarian countries, Sweden. The analysis takes into account the important distinction between average employer attitudes and the attit…
The Effect of Schooling on Cognitive Skills
To identify the causal effect of schooling on cognitive skills, we exploit conditionally random variation in the date Swedish males take a battery of cognitive tests in preparation for military service. We find an extra ten days of school instruction raises scores on crystallized intelligence tests (synonyms and technical comprehension tests) by approximately 1% of a standard deviation, whereas extra nonschool days have almost no effect. In contr…
Do Employers Use Unemployment as a Sorting Criterion When Hiring? Evidence from a Field Experiment
The stigma associated with long-term unemployment spells could create large inefficiencies in labor markets. While the existing literature points toward large stigma effects, it has proven difficult to estimate causal relationships. Using data from a field experiment, we find that long-term unemployment spells in the past do not matter for employers' hiring decisions, suggesting that subsequent work experience eliminates this negative signal. Nor…
Body Size, Skills, and Income
We provide new evidence on the long-run labor market penalty of teenage overweight and obesity using unique and large-scale data on 150,000 male siblings from the Swedish military enlistment. Our empirical analysis provides four important results. First, we provide the first evidence of a large adult male labor market penalty for being overweight or obese as a teenager. Second, we replicate this result using data from the United States and the Un…
Does the design of correspondence studies influence the measurement of discrimination
Correspondence studies can identify the extent of discrimination in hiring as typically defined by the law, which includes discrimination against ethnic minorities and females. However, as Heckman and Siegelman (1993) show, if employers act upon a group difference in the variance of unobserved variables, this measure of discrimination may not be very informative. This issue has essentially been ignored in the empirical literature until the recent…
Three generations in the New World
Roughly one million Swedes emigrated to the USA between 1870 and 1920. These emigrants gave rise to over four million individuals with a Swedish ancestry currently living in the USA. This study shows that Swedes have maintained the geographic concentrations chosen by their parents and grandparents. Also, Swedish migrants were on average less educated than the US-born white population, yet their descendants tended to be relatively better educated.…
The Shape of the Income Distribution and Economic Growth – Evidence from Swedish Labor Market Regions
We analyze the association between income inequality and economic growth using 72 labor market regions in Sweden during the period of 1990–2006. Compared with studies of cross‐country data, the regional set‐up reduces problems with omitted variable bias and endogeneity as regions within a country share the same redistributive policies and institutions. Using population register data, highly accurate measures of growth and inequality (gini, Q3, p9…
Automatic associations and discrimination in hiring
Evidence of ethnic discrimination in the Swedish labor market using experimental data
Native Language and Immigrant Labour Market Outcomes
Do When and Where Matter? Initial Labour Market Conditions and Immigrant Earnings
This article investigates the long-term effects on immigrant earnings and employment of labour market conditions encountered upon arrival. We find that early earnings assimilation depends crucially on a favourable national labour market. Exposure to high local unemployment rates also affects individuals for at least ten years. To handle the issue of selective migration, we compare refugees entering Sweden during a severe and unexpected recession …
Occupational Mobility for Immigrants in Sweden
With unique data material from the Immigrant Labour Market, Language Skill and Social Network project (IASS), based on interviews with four refugee immigrant groups (Ethiopians/Eritreans, Chileans, Iranians, and Romanians/Hungarians) occupational mobility is analysed from home country occupation to the first occupation in Sweden as well as occupational mobility during the first 15 years in Sweden. The study supports a U‐shaped occupational mobili…
How Integrated are Finns in the Swedish Labour Market? Outcomes of Free Labour Mobility
Due to the agreement of a common Nordic labour market, Finns have for several decades constituted the largest immigrant group in Sweden. However, there have been few studies explicitly concerned with how well they are integrated in the labour market. This paper attempts to fill part of this gap by studying how they succeeded before and after the economic crisis in the 1990s. Employment levels and earnings of Finnish immigrants in prime working ag…
Shifts in attitudes and labor market discrimination
Unemployment and earnings for second generation immigrants in Sweden. Ethnic background and parent composition
Adopted Children in the Labour Market — Discrimination or Unobserved Characteristics
Detecting ethnic discrimination in the labour market using individual data is aggravated by individual ethnic‐specific characteristics that are unobserved by the researcher. In an attempt to estimate the effect of skin colour on the probability of being employed (vs, unemployed), the labour market success of foreign‐born adopted individuals is compared with that of natives. Specifically, the unexplained differences in the probability of being emp…
Modeling female fertility using inflated count data models
Do When and Where Matter? Initial Labour Market Conditions and Immigrant Earnings
This article investigates the long-term effects on immigrant earnings and employment of labour market conditions encountered upon arrival. We find that early earnings assimilation depends crucially on a favourable national labour market. Exposure to high local unemployment rates also affects individuals for at least ten years. To handle the issue of selective migration, we compare refugees entering Sweden during a severe and unexpected recession …
Unemployment and earnings for second generation immigrants in Sweden. Ethnic background and parent composition
Occupational Mobility for Immigrants in Sweden
With unique data material from the Immigrant Labour Market, Language Skill and Social Network project (IASS), based on interviews with four refugee immigrant groups (Ethiopians/Eritreans, Chileans, Iranians, and Romanians/Hungarians) occupational mobility is analysed from home country occupation to the first occupation in Sweden as well as occupational mobility during the first 15 years in Sweden. The study supports a U‐shaped occupational mobili…
Shifts in attitudes and labor market discrimination
Adopted Children in the Labour Market — Discrimination or Unobserved Characteristics
Detecting ethnic discrimination in the labour market using individual data is aggravated by individual ethnic‐specific characteristics that are unobserved by the researcher. In an attempt to estimate the effect of skin colour on the probability of being employed (vs, unemployed), the labour market success of foreign‐born adopted individuals is compared with that of natives. Specifically, the unexplained differences in the probability of being emp…
Native Language and Immigrant Labour Market Outcomes
How Integrated are Finns in the Swedish Labour Market? Outcomes of Free Labour Mobility
Due to the agreement of a common Nordic labour market, Finns have for several decades constituted the largest immigrant group in Sweden. However, there have been few studies explicitly concerned with how well they are integrated in the labour market. This paper attempts to fill part of this gap by studying how they succeeded before and after the economic crisis in the 1990s. Employment levels and earnings of Finnish immigrants in prime working ag…
The intergenerational transmission of human capital
We provide new evidence on some of the mechanisms reflected in the intergenerational transmission of human capital. Applying both an adoption and a twin design to rich data from the Swedish military enlistment, we show that greater parental education increases sons’ cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. The estimates are in many cases similar across research designs and suggest that a substantial part of the effect of paren…
Employer Attitudes, the Marginal Employer, and the Ethnic Wage Gap
In most EU countries, ethnic minorities have lower wages than does the ethnic majority. To what extent these wage gaps are the result of prejudice toward ethnic minority workers is virtually unknown. The authors examine the role that prejudice plays in the creation of the ethnic wage gap in one of Europe's most egalitarian countries, Sweden. The analysis takes into account the important distinction between average employer attitudes and the attit…
Body Size, Skills, and Income
We provide new evidence on the long-run labor market penalty of teenage overweight and obesity using unique and large-scale data on 150,000 male siblings from the Swedish military enlistment. Our empirical analysis provides four important results. First, we provide the first evidence of a large adult male labor market penalty for being overweight or obese as a teenager. Second, we replicate this result using data from the United States and the Un…
Modeling female fertility using inflated count data models
Does the design of correspondence studies influence the measurement of discrimination
Correspondence studies can identify the extent of discrimination in hiring as typically defined by the law, which includes discrimination against ethnic minorities and females. However, as Heckman and Siegelman (1993) show, if employers act upon a group difference in the variance of unobserved variables, this measure of discrimination may not be very informative. This issue has essentially been ignored in the empirical literature until the recent…
Disability, gender, and hiring discrimination
This article examines disability discrimination in the hiring process and explores variation in how the intersection of disability and gender shapes employers’ hiring behavior. We use data from a field experiment in which 2,048 job applications with randomly assigned information about disability were sent to Swedish employers with vacancies. Nondisabled applicants received 33% more callbacks than similarly qualified wheelchair users despite apply…
Modeling female fertility using inflated count data models
Adopted Children in the Labour Market — Discrimination or Unobserved Characteristics
Detecting ethnic discrimination in the labour market using individual data is aggravated by individual ethnic‐specific characteristics that are unobserved by the researcher. In an attempt to estimate the effect of skin colour on the probability of being employed (vs, unemployed), the labour market success of foreign‐born adopted individuals is compared with that of natives. Specifically, the unexplained differences in the probability of being emp…
Unemployment and earnings for second generation immigrants in Sweden. Ethnic background and parent composition
Shifts in attitudes and labor market discrimination
Occupational Mobility for Immigrants in Sweden
With unique data material from the Immigrant Labour Market, Language Skill and Social Network project (IASS), based on interviews with four refugee immigrant groups (Ethiopians/Eritreans, Chileans, Iranians, and Romanians/Hungarians) occupational mobility is analysed from home country occupation to the first occupation in Sweden as well as occupational mobility during the first 15 years in Sweden. The study supports a U‐shaped occupational mobili…
How Integrated are Finns in the Swedish Labour Market? Outcomes of Free Labour Mobility
Due to the agreement of a common Nordic labour market, Finns have for several decades constituted the largest immigrant group in Sweden. However, there have been few studies explicitly concerned with how well they are integrated in the labour market. This paper attempts to fill part of this gap by studying how they succeeded before and after the economic crisis in the 1990s. Employment levels and earnings of Finnish immigrants in prime working ag…
Evidence of ethnic discrimination in the Swedish labor market using experimental data
Native Language and Immigrant Labour Market Outcomes
Do When and Where Matter? Initial Labour Market Conditions and Immigrant Earnings
This article investigates the long-term effects on immigrant earnings and employment of labour market conditions encountered upon arrival. We find that early earnings assimilation depends crucially on a favourable national labour market. Exposure to high local unemployment rates also affects individuals for at least ten years. To handle the issue of selective migration, we compare refugees entering Sweden during a severe and unexpected recession …
Automatic associations and discrimination in hiring
Three generations in the New World
Roughly one million Swedes emigrated to the USA between 1870 and 1920. These emigrants gave rise to over four million individuals with a Swedish ancestry currently living in the USA. This study shows that Swedes have maintained the geographic concentrations chosen by their parents and grandparents. Also, Swedish migrants were on average less educated than the US-born white population, yet their descendants tended to be relatively better educated.…
The Shape of the Income Distribution and Economic Growth – Evidence from Swedish Labor Market Regions
We analyze the association between income inequality and economic growth using 72 labor market regions in Sweden during the period of 1990–2006. Compared with studies of cross‐country data, the regional set‐up reduces problems with omitted variable bias and endogeneity as regions within a country share the same redistributive policies and institutions. Using population register data, highly accurate measures of growth and inequality (gini, Q3, p9…
Do Employers Use Unemployment as a Sorting Criterion When Hiring? Evidence from a Field Experiment
The stigma associated with long-term unemployment spells could create large inefficiencies in labor markets. While the existing literature points toward large stigma effects, it has proven difficult to estimate causal relationships. Using data from a field experiment, we find that long-term unemployment spells in the past do not matter for employers' hiring decisions, suggesting that subsequent work experience eliminates this negative signal. Nor…
Body Size, Skills, and Income
We provide new evidence on the long-run labor market penalty of teenage overweight and obesity using unique and large-scale data on 150,000 male siblings from the Swedish military enlistment. Our empirical analysis provides four important results. First, we provide the first evidence of a large adult male labor market penalty for being overweight or obese as a teenager. Second, we replicate this result using data from the United States and the Un…
Does the design of correspondence studies influence the measurement of discrimination
Correspondence studies can identify the extent of discrimination in hiring as typically defined by the law, which includes discrimination against ethnic minorities and females. However, as Heckman and Siegelman (1993) show, if employers act upon a group difference in the variance of unobserved variables, this measure of discrimination may not be very informative. This issue has essentially been ignored in the empirical literature until the recent…
The Effect of Schooling on Cognitive Skills
To identify the causal effect of schooling on cognitive skills, we exploit conditionally random variation in the date Swedish males take a battery of cognitive tests in preparation for military service. We find an extra ten days of school instruction raises scores on crystallized intelligence tests (synonyms and technical comprehension tests) by approximately 1% of a standard deviation, whereas extra nonschool days have almost no effect. In contr…
The health-schooling relationship
Employer Attitudes, the Marginal Employer, and the Ethnic Wage Gap
In most EU countries, ethnic minorities have lower wages than does the ethnic majority. To what extent these wage gaps are the result of prejudice toward ethnic minority workers is virtually unknown. The authors examine the role that prejudice plays in the creation of the ethnic wage gap in one of Europe's most egalitarian countries, Sweden. The analysis takes into account the important distinction between average employer attitudes and the attit…
The intergenerational transmission of human capital
We provide new evidence on some of the mechanisms reflected in the intergenerational transmission of human capital. Applying both an adoption and a twin design to rich data from the Swedish military enlistment, we show that greater parental education increases sons’ cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. The estimates are in many cases similar across research designs and suggest that a substantial part of the effect of paren…
Disability, gender, and hiring discrimination
This article examines disability discrimination in the hiring process and explores variation in how the intersection of disability and gender shapes employers’ hiring behavior. We use data from a field experiment in which 2,048 job applications with randomly assigned information about disability were sent to Swedish employers with vacancies. Nondisabled applicants received 33% more callbacks than similarly qualified wheelchair users despite apply…
Economics (19 obras) · Demographic economics (17 obras) · Labour economics (13 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Demography (8 obras) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (8 obras) · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research (8 obras) · Demography (7 obras)