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Explaining Job Polarization: Routine-Biased Technological Change and Offshoring

Goos, Maarten; Manning, Alan; Salomons, Anna - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 8, pp. 2509-26

This paper documents the pervasiveness of job polarization in 16 Western European countries over the period 1993-2010. It then develops and estimates a framework to explain job polarization using routine-biased technological change and offshoring. This model can explain much of both total job...

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Industrial Policy, Employer Size, and Economic Performance in Sweden

Davis, Steven; Henrekson, Magnus - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995

discouraged entrepreneurship and family ownership of businesses in favor of institutional ownership. Credit market regulations …

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Explaining National Differences in the Size and Industry Distribution of Employment

Davis, Steven; Henrekson, Magnus - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

What factors determine national differences in the size and industry distribution of employment? We stress the role of the economic policy environment as determined by business taxes, employment securitylaws, credit market regulations, the national pension system, wage-setting institutions and...

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How local are labor markets? Evidence from a spatial job search model

Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper uses data on very small UK geographies to investigate the effective size of local labor markets. Our approach treats geographic space as continuous, as opposed to a collection of non-overlapping administrative units, thus avoiding problems of mismeasurement of local labor markets...

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Job Polarization in Europe

Goos, Maarten; Manning, Alan; Salomons, Anna - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 2, pp. 58-63

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Privatization, Entry Regulation and the Decline of Labour's Share of GDP: A Cross-Country Analysis of the Network Industries

Azmat, Ghazala; Manning, Alan; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Labour's share of GDP in most OECD countries has declined over the last two decades. Some authors have suggested that these changes are linked to deregulation of product and labour markets. To examine this we focus on a large quasi-experiment in the OECD: the privatization of many network...

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Entrepreneurship, innovation, and human flourishing

Henrekson, Magnus - In: Small Business Economics 43 (2014) 3, pp. 511-528

(Phelps <CitationRef CitationID="CR67">2013</CitationRef>) as inspiration to discuss innovation and entrepreneurship. The book … achieved through a purposeless quest for wealth and material consumption, but rather through adventure, entrepreneurship, and … entrepreneurship are not merely the keys to economic growth, but to life satisfaction as well. This essay discusses topics in …

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Entrepreneurship and the theory of taxation

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - In: Small Business Economics 37 (2011) 2, pp. 167-185

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Entrepreneurship and second-best institutions: going beyond Baumol’s typology

Douhan, Robin; Henrekson, Magnus - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 20 (2010) 4, pp. 629-643

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Israel M. Kirzner: An Outstanding Austrian Contributor to the Economics of Entrepreneurship

Douhan, Robin; Eliasson, Gunnar; Henrekson, Magnus - In: Small Business Economics 29 (2007) 1, pp. 213-223

Israel M. Kirzner is the 2006 winner of The International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research. In … this essay, we present and evaluate his main contributions to the economics of entrepreneurship. The focus is on how … crucial role of entrepreneurship and the individual entrepreneur has become visible to a much broader audience. Copyright …

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