Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 185
Cover Image
Firm Growth, Institutions and Structural Transformation
Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010
This essay argues that the economic contribution of certain firms – be they small, young or rapidly growing – has to be understood in a broader context of creative destruction. Growth of some firms requires contraction and exit of some other firms to free up resources that can be reallocated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008520887
Cover Image
Gazelles as Job Creators – A Survey and Interpretation of the Evidence
Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
It is often claimed that small and young firms account for a disproportionately large share of net employment growth. We conduct a meta analysis of the empirical evidence regarding whether net employment growth rather is generated by a few rapidly growing firms – so-called Gazelles – that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645364
Cover Image
Wage Fairness and International Trade Theory and Policy
Agell, Jonas; Lundborg, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1991
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685040
Cover Image
The Evolving Domain of Entrepreneurship Research
Carlsson, Bo; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; McKelvey, Maureen; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013
Research on entrepreneurship has flourished in recent years and is evolving rapidly. This paper explores the history of … entrepreneurship research, how the research domain has evolved, and its current status as an academic field. The need to concretize … confronting the prize committee of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research. <p> Entrepreneurship has developed in many sub …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019049
Cover Image
Income Inequality and Individual Health: Exploring the Association in a Developing Country
Nilsson, Therese; Bergh, Andreas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
We use individual and multi-level data from Zambia on child nutritional health to test the absolute income hypothesis (AIH), the relative income hypothesis (RIH) and the income inequality hypothesis (IIH). The results confirm a non-linear positive relation between economic resources and health,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272723
Cover Image
Does Hedonic Price Indexing Change Our Interpretation of Economic History? Evidence from Swedish Electrification
Edquist, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
Rapid price decreases for ICT-products in the 1990s have been largely attributed to the introduction of hedonic price indexes. Would hedonic price indexing also have large effects on measured price and productivity during other technological breakthroughs? This paper investigates the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082490
Cover Image
Institutions for the Selection of Entrepreneurs: Implications for Economic Growth and Financial Crises.
Pelikan, P. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999
The search for growth-promoting policies is found to demand knowledge of how growth depends upon actions of entrepreneurs and how these actions depend upon the prevailing institutions. While institutions have extensively been examined for their influences upon the freedoms and the incentives of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005780392
Cover Image
Gender, Wages, and Social Security in China’s Industrial Sector
Rickne, Johanna - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010
This study compares average earnings and productivities for men and women employed in roughly 200,000 Chinese industrial enterprises. Women’s average wages lag behind men’s wages by 11%, and this result is robust to the inclusion of non-wage income in the form of social insurance payments....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008503172
Cover Image
Institutions for the Selection of Entrepreneurs: Implications for Economic Growth and Financial Crises
Pelikan, Pavel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999
The search for growth-promoting policies is found to demand knowledge of how growth depends upon actions of entrepreneurs and how these actions depend upon the prevailing institutions. While institutions have extensively been examined for their influences upon the freedoms and the incentives of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190640
Cover Image
What have we learned from evolutionary game theory so far?
WEIBULL JORGEN.W - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997
Distinguishes between the evolutionnary apptoach and the rationnalistic. The most important findings in evolutionary game theory. The next challenges for evolutionary game theory in economics.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639289