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The Nordic experience revisited: labour market booms and slumps since the 1990s in Finland and Sweden
Pehkonen, Jaakko; Sala, Hector; Salvador, Pablo F. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 38 (2011) January, pp. 52-65
Purpose – This paper aims to provide an account of the unemployment performance of two Nordic countries during their recent labour market booms and slumps. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the empirical models of Karanassou et al., we conduct dynamic simulation exercises and explore...
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Comprehensive education or vocational training for the unemployed?
Stenberg, Anders - In: International Journal of Manpower 28 (2007) May, pp. 42-42
Adult Education Initiative (AEI) in Sweden was introduced in the autumn of 1997 and generated a massive expansion of …
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Social assistance among immigrants and natives in Sweden
Gustafsson, Björn Anders - In: International Journal of Manpower 34 (2013) February, pp. 126-141
immigrants to Sweden and compare to receipt by natives. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes the institutional … receipt. Findings – Most out-payment for social assistance in Sweden refers to foreign-born persons, a category comprising 14 … receipt between immigrants and natives in Sweden. …
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Incentives for Women to Work: A Comparison between The Netherlands, Sweden and West Germany
Gustafsson, S.S.; Bruyn-Hundt, M. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 18 (1991) October, pp. 30-65
Compares the way women are taxed in the Germany, Sweden and The Netherlands by looking at both macro and micro data … favours one-earner couples. Completely separate taxation (as in Sweden) is a major incentive for couples to be dual-earner. In … without introducing the positive effects seen in Sweden. Tax incentives are not the only determinant of women's participation …
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My urban idol 2050 - the city of Gothenburg
Karlsson, Charlie - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 14 (2015) 1/2, pp. 17-39
In this paper, the author sketches a scenario for a possible future development path for the City of Gothenburg and its surrounding labour market region - the Gothenburg region and a scenario for what the city and the region might look like in 2050. The author does not use a traditional scenario...
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Hybrid Governance: The Case of Household Solid Waste Management in Sweden
Lindqvist, Katja - In: Public Organization Review 13 (2013) 2, pp. 143-154
Sweden from a hybridity perspective, with the City of Helsingborg in North-Western Scania in Sweden as an example. The …
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Expert knowledge use and deliberation in local policy making
Lundin, Martin; Öberg, PerOla - In: Policy Sciences 47 (2014) 1, pp. 25-49
to them by the administrators. The study is based on original, quantitative data from local politics in Sweden. We find …
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Entrepreneurship and survival over the business cycle: how do new technology-based firms differ?
Ejermo, Olof; Xiao, Jing - In: Small Business Economics 43 (2014) 2, pp. 411-426
We investigate the survival performance of new technology-based firms (NTBFs) over the business cycle and compare them against other entrepreneurial firms. Our data comprise the entire population of entrepreneurial firms entering the Swedish economy from 1991 to 2002, which we follow until 2007....
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Company Performance, Corporate Governance, and CEO Compensation in Norway and Sweden
Randøy, Trond; Nielsen, Jim - In: Journal of Management and Governance 6 (2002) 1, pp. 57-81
Norway and 104from Sweden. The empirical evidence fromboth Norway and Sweden reveals significantpositive relationships among …
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Factors Shaping Workplace Segregation Between Natives and Immigrants
Strömgren, Magnus; Tammaru, Tiit; Danzer, Alexander; … - In: Demography 51 (2014) 2, pp. 645-671
, which enables us to observe all immigrants in Sweden for the period 1990–2005 on an annual basis. We compare estimates from …
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