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The Making of a Manager: Evidence from Military Officer Training

Grönqvist, Erik; Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015

We show that officer training during the Swedish military service has a strong positive effect on the probability to attain a managerial position later in life. The most intense type of officer training increases the probability of becoming a civilian manager by about 5 percentage points, or 75...

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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework

Douhan, Robin; van Praag, Mirjam - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...

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Estimation of Wage Gains and Welfare Gains from Self-Selection Models

Björklund, Anders - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1983

In this paper we consider the basic self-selection model for the effects of education, training, unions, and other …

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A Procedure for Testing the Signalling Hypothesis

Albrecht, James W. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1980

is to examine directly the question of whether employers use education for purely informational purposes in their hiring …

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Intergenerational Education Transmission: Neighborhood Quality and/or Parents' Involvement?

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004

's involvement in children's education, indicating cultural complementarity. For high-educated parents, we also find that both … parents' involvement in education and neighborhood's quality significantly affect the intergenerational transmission of … education, the former being more potent than the latter. Low-educated parents do not spend much time educating their offspring …

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The Short- and Long-term Effects of School Choice on Student Outcomes — Evidence from a School Choice Reform in Sweden

Wontratschek, Verena; Edmark, Karin; Frölich, Markus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

education, employment, criminal activity and health. …

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Peers and Culture

Sáez-Martí, María; Sjögren, Anna - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005

We analyze the evolution of cultural traits when parents purposefully invest resources in order to socialize their children to the cultural traits that maximize child lifetime utility. We assume that children are not passive in their adoption of traits from peers. Instead they are guided by an...

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Industrial Targeting: Defensive or Offensive Strategies in a Neo-Schumpeterian Perspective

Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1986

This paper introduces an experimental economy with boundedly rational agents that compete with local, and largely incommunicable industrial knowledge, in an international market environment with more or less unbounded, commercial opportunities. Predictability of outcomes at the micro level is...

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

Meyerson, Eva M.; Petersen, Trond; Snartland, Vemund - 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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Are CEOs Born Leaders? Lessons from Traits of a Million Individuals

Keloharju, Matti; Knüpfer, Samuli - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

Our study combines a near-exhaustive sample of CEOs of Swedish companies with data on their cognitive and non-cognitive ability and height at age 18. Although CEOs, and large-company CEOs in particular, have better traits than the population on average, they are neither exceptional in any of the...

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