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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...
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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 toward multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the division...
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In this paper, I investigate whether instead of strengthening home-based production, government R&D-subsidies can induce R&D-intensive firms to locate production abroad. Investigating firm-level data on Swedish MNEs, however, I find no evidence of such relocation. R&D subsidies rather tend to en...
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This paper investigates labor productivity growth and the contribution to labor productivity growth in Swedish manufacturing during electrification and the ICT revolution. The paper distinguishes between technology-producing, intensive and less intensive technology-using industries during these...
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This paper develops a simple general equilibrium model with sequential search in which a non-degenerate wage offer … compensation on the unemployment rate and aggregate welfare taking into account the induced change in the wage offer distribution …
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manufacturing. Most of this increase was due to increased wage subsidies to specific firms facing acute difficulties. The Swedish … selective wage subsidy yields higher industrial output, employment and export in the short run than alternative subsidy policies …
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