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Wage-Setting Institutions as Industrial Policy.

Davis, S.J.; Henrekson, M. - 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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Full Employment and the Welfare State.

Lindbeck, A. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486494

The West European Employment Problem.

Lindbeck, A. - 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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Foreign Direct Investment, Capital Formation and Labour Costs: Theory and Evidence for Germany.

Hatzius, J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996

This paper shows that the liberalisation of foreign direct investment (FDI) tends to make the effect of labour costs on domestic investment and labour demand more negative.

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Institutional Effects on the Evolution of the Size Distribution of Firms

Henrekson, M.; Johansson, D. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

In this paper it is argued that the size distribution of firms may largely be determined by institutional factors. This hypothesis is tested in an exploratory fashion by studying the evolution of the size distribution of firms over time in Sweden for a period spanning from teh late 1960s to the...

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Explaining National Differences in the Size and Industrial Distribution of Employment.

Davis, S-J; Henrekson, M - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

What factors determine national differences in the size and industry distribution of employment? This study stresses the role of business taxation, employment security laws, credit market policies, wage-setting institutions and the size of the public sector.

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On the Cultural Transmission of Corruption.

Hauk, E.; Saez-Marti, M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

We provide a cultural explanation to the phenomenon of corruption in the framework of an overlapping generations model with intergenerational transmission of values. We show that the economy has two steady states with different levels of corruption.

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Are Female Workers Less Productive Than Male Workers? Productivity and the Gender Wage Gap?

Meyerson, E.M.; Petersen, T.; Snartland, V. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

It is extraordinarily difficult to determine the extent to which the gender wage gap reflects discriminatory behaviors by employers or differences in productive capacities between men and women. We note that where piece-rate work is performed, wages should in principle reflect productivity...

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Testing the Female Underperformance Hypothesis.

Du Rietz, A.; Henrekson, M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999

Most previous studies have found evidence at the aggregate level that female entrepreneurs underperform relative to their male counterparts. This study conducts a comprehensive test of this finding. The test is conducted on a large Swedish sample of 4200 entrepreneurs (405 females) with 1 to 20...

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Income Distribution and labour Market Discrimination : A Case Study of Namibia.

Ekstrom, E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

second study examines the differences in earnings between males and females in the Namibian labour market. In both studies we …-economic variables that affect the Namibian income distribution. he aim of the second study is to examine the differences in earnings … between males and females in manufacturing, service and public sector. The estimated earnings differences are decomposed into …

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