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Education and Family Background: Mechanisms and Policies

Björklund, Anders; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

In every society for which we have data, people’s educational achievement is positively correlated with their parents’ education or with other indicators of their parents’ socioeconomic status. This topic is central in social science, and there is no doubt that research has intensified...

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The Impact of Family Background on the Returns to and Length of Schooling in Sweden

Björklund, Anders - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1992

No abstract.

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The Role of Parental Income over the Life Cycle: A Comparison of Sweden and the UK

Björklund, Anders; Jäntti, Markus; Nybom, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Research on intergenerational income mobility has shown stronger persistence between parental and offspring's income in the UK than in Sweden. We use similar data sets for the two countries to explore whether these cross-national differences show up already early in offspring's life in outcomes...

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The Role of Mothers and Fathers in Providing Skills: Evidence from Parental Deaths

Adda, Jérôme; Björklund, Anders; Holmlund, Helena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper evaluates the long-term consequences of parental death on children’s cognitive and noncognitive skills, as well as on labor market outcomes. We exploit a large administrative data set covering many Swedish cohorts. We develop new estimation methods to tackle the potential...

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The Role of Mothers and Fathers in Providing Skills: Evidence from Parental Deaths

Adda, Jérôme; Björklund, Anders; Holmlund, Helena - Department of Economics, European University Institute - 2011

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The Organization of the Innovation Industry: Entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists and Oligopolists

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

sales price of a developed innovation. This will trigger preemptive acquisitions by incumbents, thus increasing the reward …

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Entrepreneurial Commercialization Choices and the Interaction between IPR and Competition Policy

Gans, Joshua S.; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

entrepreneurs with respect to commercialization as well as the rate of innovation. We find that stronger intellectual property … them. Consequently, we demonstrate that competition policy has a clearer role in promoting a higher rate of innovation in … increasing the rate of entrepreneurial innovation. …

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Entrepreneurial Innovations and Taxation

Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

growth. In this paper we study the effects of tax and subsidy policies on entrepreneurs’ choice of riskiness of an innovation … project and on their mode of commercializing the innovation (market entry versus sale). Limited loss offset provisions in the … fundamental policy trade-off between the declared goals of promoting employment and innovation in small, entrepreneurial firms …

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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Entrepreneurship Policy and Globalization

Douhan, Robin; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

What explains the world-wide trend of pro-entrepreneurial policies in the last few decades? We study entrepreneurial policy in a lobbying model taking into account the con.ict of interest between entrepreneurs and incumbents. It is shown that international market integration leads to more...

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Venture Capitalists, Asymmetric Information, and Ownership in the Innovation Process

Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

' signaling-driven investment, despite the risk of buying a bad innovation. We finally show at what point the presence of active …

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