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How Changes in Labor Demand Affects Unemployed Workers
Burdett, Kenneth - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1980
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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
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Density, Social Networks and Job Search Methods: Theory and Application to Egypt
Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004
The aim of this paper is to study the impact of the size and the quality of social networks on the probability to find a job. We first develop a theoretical model in which individuals are embedded within a network of social relationships. Workers can obtain information about jobs via employed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645445
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684533
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645355
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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