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The Division of Labor and the Market for Organizations

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive … rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the division of labor within firms emphasizes the returns from specialization and … of the versatility of human capital. The paper also explores how the move towards multi-tasking can affect the labor …

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Wage-Setting Institutions as Industrial Policy

Henrekson, Magnus; Davis, Steven J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

Centralized wage-setting institutions compress relative wages. Motivated by this fact, we investigate the effects of centralized wage setting on the industry distribution of employment. We examine Sweden's industry distribution from 1960 to 1994 and compare it to the U.S. distribution over the...

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Improving the Performance of the European Social Model - The Welfare State over the Life Cycle

Lindbeck, Assar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003

The achievements of social-welfare arrangements in Western Europe are well known: considerable income security, relatively little poverty and, in some countries, ample supply of social services. But there are also well-known weaknesses and hence considerable scope for improvement. Three types of...

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The West European Employment Problem

Lindbeck, Assar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996

How do we explain the poor employment performance in Western Europe since about the-1970s? This question is in fact twofold : What initiated the dramatic rise in employment, and waht mechanisms have made it continue for so long? My attemps to answer these questions from the basis for a...

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Reorganization of Firms and Labor Market Inequality

Lindbeck, Assar; Dennis J. Snower , Dennis J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1995

occupational barriers, the transformation of job opportunities, and the implications for inequality in the labor market. …

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Full Employment and the Welfare State

Lindbeck, Assar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

What were the asserted complementarities between the welfare state and full-employment policies, and why do these complementarities look less convincing today?

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