it can be used to account for some of the observed differences between Sweden and the US in this respect. Our normative … dependence in career choice and career progression is emphasized. -- Career choice ; Career incentives ; Gender equality …

address this question by characterizing and evaluating the policy pursued in Sweden and the US, two countries that put a great … record, there is an impression of laggard rates of commercialization of academic research results in Sweden. Although there …

tested by an in-depth examination of the experiences of Sweden and the US. Despite large levels of R&D spending and … comprehensive government support schemes, science-based entrepre-neurship has been far less important in Sweden compared to the US … Sweden in some areas is consistent with these changes. Our analysis suggests that a policy aimed at encouraging science …

Walter Korpi argues in a previous issue of Challenge (March/April 2000) that Swedish economists' claim that Sweden …'s growth performance has been inferior to that of other industrialized countries is at odds with the facts. Since Sweden has … wrong regarding Sweden's relative growth performance. Available data indicate that Sweden was lagging behind during the 1970 …

benchmark, we estimate that removal of these barriers would increase the productive labor supply in Japan by some 13 to 18 …. -- labor mobility ; gender …

such gender gaps have changed in recent years. METHODS: We use data from several surveys during the period 1997 to 2001 to …, but this gender gap in being online disappeared by 2000. However, once online, women remain less frequent and less intense … now, but gender differences in frequency and intensity of Internet usage remain. -- Internet ; gender ; race …