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Occupational Choice and Incentives: The Role of Family Background.

Sjogren, A. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

A model of occupational choice and human capital investment is developed and tested. The model allows family background to influence occupational choice via access to economic resources, differences in costs of schooling, and ability uncertainty. The model predicts that people are more sensitive...

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ICT and Household-Firm Relations.

Lindbeck, A.; Wikstrom, S. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

This paper discusses how ICT and emerging electronic commerce in consumer products influence the relative efficiency in production of households and firms, resulting in changes in the division of tasks between these two types of agents. Increased information and competence of households, in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005780384

How to Combine High Sunk Costs of Exporting and Low Export Survival

Persson, Maria; Gullstrand, Joakim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

In endeavouring to explain the empirical puzzle that the sunk costs of exporting are important, but that, at the same time, trade flows do not, on average, survive for very long, this paper explores the concepts of core and peripheral markets. First, it illustrates that if the importance of sunk...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019051

Product Market Reforms and Incentives to Innovate in Sweden

Edquist, Harald; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

strong economic development in Sweden during the last two decades, namely product market reforms and incentives to innovate …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729195

Wealth Concentration over the Path of Development: Sweden, 1873–2006

Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771090

Swedish Lessons for Post-Socialist Countries

Lindbeck, Assar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

Sweden experienced exeptionally fast economic growth during the century-long period 1870-1970. This illustrates that a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190641

The Number and the Size Distribution of Firms in Sweden and Other European Countries.

Johansson, D - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

The study investigates changes in the number and the size distribution of firms in Sweden in the period 1968-1993. The …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639335

Long-Run Changes in the Concentration of Wealth: An Overview of Recent Findings

Waldenström, Daniel; Ohlsson, Henry; Roine, Jesper - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

The objective of this paper is to study the dynamics of the wealth distribution over the path of economic development. More specifically, we are interested in distinguishing between changes which seem to be country specific and characteristics shared by all countries. A historical account of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645360

The Evolution of Top Incomes in an Egalitarian Society; Sweden, 1903–2004

Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006

This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903–2004. We find that …. When included, Sweden’s experience resembles that in the U.S. and the U.K. with sharp increases in top incomes. Excluding … capital gains, Sweden looks more like the continental European countries where top income shares have remained relatively …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645425

Payroll Taxes and Wage Inflation: The Swedish Experiences

Holmlund, Bertil - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1983

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