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Employer-Sponsored Training in Stabilisation and Growth Policy Perspectives
Håkanson, Christina; Johanson, Satu; Mellander, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003
In Europe, accounting standards prevent larger expenditures on employer-sponsored training from being treated as … investments. Using Sweden as example, we discuss two consequences for training. First, the timing: training will be conducted when … income is large enough for training costs to be deducted without loss. This is more often possible during booms than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645324
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Firms' Sponsored Training and Performance: A Comparison between France and Sweden Based on Firms Data
Ballot, Gérard; Taymaz, Erol - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1993
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818465
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Swedish Multinationals and Competition from High- and Low-Wage Locations
Braconier, Henrik; Ekholm, Karolina - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999
This study uses data on Swedish multinationals to estimate cross elasticities of labour demand in different locations. With a vertical decomposition of the firm's activities, whether there is substitution or complementarity between employment in different parts of the firm will depend on whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207052
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Employer Attitudes towards Refugee Immigrants
Lundborg, Per; Skedinger, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
We present a large survey with responses from Swedish firms on their attitudes towards refugees, regarding hiring, job performance, wage setting and discrimination. Generally, firms report positive experiences of having refugees as employees, but we also document a great deal of heterogeneity in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010779452
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Cost and Productivity Effects of Firm Financed Training.
Ottersten, E.K.; Lindh, T.; Mellander, E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996
A Quality-adjusted specification of labor is suggested which allow firms training to effect labor efficiency. To assess …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486498
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Cost and Productivity Effects of Firm Financed Training
Kazamaki Ottersten, Eugenia; Lindh, Thomas; Mellander, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996
A quality-adjusted specification of labor is suggested which allows firm training to affect labor efficiency. To assess … probability that training expenditures result in net decreases in total costs. Judging from the corresponding point estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010600201
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The Effect of Employment Protection on Labor Productivity
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015
The theoretical predictions of how employment protection affects firm productivity are ambiguous. In this paper I study the effect of employment protection rules on labor productivity using micro data on Swedish firms. A reform of the employment protection rules in 2001 made it possible for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261209
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The Division of Labor and the Market for Organizations
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis 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 toward multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the division...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082494
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Recruitment to Sheltered Employment: Evidence from Samhall, a Swedish State-Owned Company
Skedinger, Per; Widerstedt, Barbro - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003
This paper analyses recruitment practices to Samhall, a state-owned company that provides sheltered employment for individuals with severe work disabilities. Besides providing employment for disabled workers and rehabilitating them to employment outside Samhall, the company is expected to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645317
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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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670117