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The European Size Distribution of Firms and Employment

Stenkula, Mikael - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006

The policy debate in recent years has increasingly focused on issues concerning size distribution of firms and employment. It is often claimed that we are approaching a new economic era where large enterprises have lost their importance in developed economies. This raises the question of what we...

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Is the Elephant Stepping on its Trunk? The Problem of India's Unbalanced Growth

Douhan, Robin; Nordberg, Anders - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

It is often assumed that recent success in the high-technology software industry will lead India's development. However, evidence suggest that basic manufacturing industry is stagnant. This paper proposes a mechanism that ties these two trends together. A big-push type of model, featuring...

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Institutional Effects on the Evolution of the Size Distribution of Firms

Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan - 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 the late 1960s to the...

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Analysis of Industrial Structure: A Production Function Approach

Førsund, Finn R.; Hjalmarsson, Lennart - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1984

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Implications of Skill-Biased Technological Change: International Evidence

Berman, Eli; Bound, John; Machin, Stephen - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

decades. We argue that pervasive skill biased technological change rather than increased trade with the developing world is …

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Trade and Security, 1:Anarchy.

Anderson, J-E; Marcouiller, D - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

trade. Utility-maximizing agents opt between careers in specialized production and careers in predation. Three types of …

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Global Income Divergence, Trade and Industrialisation: The Geography of Growth Take-Offs

Baldwin, R.E.; Martin, P.; Ottaviano, G.I.P. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

trade expansion. Specifically, we present a stages-of-growth model in which the four phenomena are jointly endogenous and …

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Cumulative Effects of Labor Market Distortions in a Developing Country.

Norback, P.-J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999

This paper considers a small open economy where an input-output industrial structure, scale economies and imperfect competition, create vertical linkages and multiple equilibria. In this environment, an imperfect labor market is introduced by assuming unionized labor. It is shown that if the...

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Trade, Southern Integration, and Uneven Development

Trofimov, Georgi - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

The paper demonstrates how trade between developing countries can cause the divergence of long-run growth among these … trade occurs at any moment if the countries have different numbers of intermediate varieties. The country with a larger … number produces more manufactured goods than the other country does. In the bilateral trade the advanced country exports …

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Trade and Location with Horizontal and Vertical Multi-Region Firms

Ekholm, Karolina; Forslid, Rikard - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

model of trade and location. More specifically, we introduce horizontal and vertical multi-region firms into the core … effects found in the CP model by making the range of trade costs for which the core-periphery equilibrium occurs smaller. The …

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