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Is Human Capital the Key to the IT Productivity Paradox?.

Gunnarsson, G.; Mellander, E.; Savvidou, E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

Unlike previous analyses, we consider (i) that IT may affect productivity growth both directly and indirectly, through human capital interactions, and (ii) possible externalities in the use of IT. Examining, hypothetically, the statistical consequences of erroneously disregarding (i) and (ii) we...

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The Division of Labor and the Market for Organizations.

Lindbeck, A.; Snower, D.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 observed changes in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation.

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Wage-Setting Institutions as Industrial Policy.

Davis, S.J.; Henrekson, M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

centralized wage setting on the industry distribution of employment. We examine Sweden's industry distribution from 1960 to 1994 … distribution. The compression associated with centralized wage-setting shifted the industry distribution of Swedish employment in …

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Foreign Direct Investment and Employment: Home Country Experience in the United States and Sweden

Blomstrom, M.; Fors, G.; Lipsey, R.E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

We compare the relation between foreign affiliate production and parent employment in U.S. manufacturing multinationals …

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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 …

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Internal Efficiency and External Conditions.

Weibull, J-W - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

This paper develops a new analystical approach to the old question whether market conditions may influence the internal efficiency of firms. The basic textbook model of the firm is slightly extended to incorporate managers' incentives to reduce production costs in an imperfectly competitive...

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Strategic Investments in the Pulp and Paper Industry: A Count Data Regression Analysis.

Bergman, M.A.; Johansson, P. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

This paper analyses the effects of price and market size variables on the investment propensities in the pulp and paper industry. A panel of 15 European countries in the time period 1984 - 1997 is used in the regression analysis. We find the wages, the US/ECU exchange rate, the price of paper...

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Swedish Multinationals and Competition from High- and Low-Wage Locations.

Braconier, H.; Ekholm, K. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999

. With a vertical decomposition of the firm's activities, whether there is substitution or complementarity between employment … substitutionary relationship between employment in the Swedish parts of the firms and employment in other high-income locations, but … we do not find any evidence of substitution stemming from employment in low-income locations. We find mainly a …

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The Multi-Dimensional Nature of Labor Demand and Skill-Biased Technological Change.

Mellander, E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999

Investigating the robustness of the skill-biased technical change hypothesis, this analysis incorporates two novel features. First, effective labor is modeled as the product of a quantity measure - number of employees with a given level of education - and a quality index, depending on, i.a.,...

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The European Unemployment Dilemma.

Ljungqvist, L; Sargent, T-J - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

Post World War II European welfare states experienced several decades of relatively low unemployment, followed by a plague of persistently high unemployment since the 1980's. We impute the higher unemployment to welfare states' diminished ability to cope with more turbulent economic times, such...

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