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The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education in High School on Long-Term Entrepreneurial Performance

Elert, Niklas; Andersson, Fredrik; Wennberg, Karl - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015

entry, performance, and survival. Using propensity score matching, we compare three Swedish cohorts from Junior Achievement … entrepreneurial incomes, there is no effect on firm survival. …

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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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Sensitivity to Shocks and Implicit Employment Protection in Family Firms

Bjuggren, Carl Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

In this study I present empirical evidence that employment in family firms is less sensitive to performance and product … at the industry level and I show that this also holds for fluctuations in value added. I extend the analysis to show that … idiosyncratic shocks to the firm, I find that family firms are less anxious to translate temporary shocks in performance into …

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Sizing Up the Impact of Embassies on Exports

Ferguson, Shon; Forslid, Rikard - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

The purpose of this study is to test for the effects of trade promotion via the foreign service. We develop a Melitz-based model where firms are heterogeneous with respect to productivity and must pay a beachhead cost to enter a foreign market, which can be reduced by government spending on...

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Productivity Analysis: A Micro-to-Macro Perspective

Carlsson, Bo - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1987

This paper raises several issues concerning productivity analysis. An attempt is made to demonstrate the usefulness of … a micro-based approach to productivity analysis which challenges some basic assumptions of conventional analyses based … investing, and under what incentives. <p> The implication for productivity analysis is that unless diversity among economic …

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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...

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On the Econometric Analysis of Production When There Are No Output Data

Mellander, Erik; Ysander, Bengt-Christer - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989

A general method is described which allows a production activity to be analyzed by means of input data only. According to duality theory, the input cost shares can be completely specified without any information about output if the technology is homothetic. It is demonstrated that these cost...

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Changing the Corporate Elite? Not So Easy. Female Directors’ Appointments onto Corporate Boards

Gregoric, Aleksandra; Oxelheim, Lars; Randøy, Trond; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

Scholars have previously investigated country and organizational-level factors associated with the incidence of female directors on boards. These studies, however, cannot explain why, in countries with strong gender equality and pressure for female directorships, firms are still hesitant to...

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Production Hierarchies in Sweden

Tåg, Joacim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

I study the internal organization of firms using occupation data on workers in Swedish manufacturing firms. Firms with more layers are larger in size, in value added, and they pay higher wages. Firms are hierarchal in that lower layers have more workers and lower mean wage than higher layers....

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Scrapping a Wind Turbine: Policy Changes, Scrapping Incentives and Why Wind Turbines in Good Locations Get Scrapped First

Mauritzen, Johannes - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

The most common reason for scrapping a wind turbine in Denmark is to make room for a newer turbine. The decision to scrap a wind turbine is then highly dependent on an opportunity cost that comes from the interaction of scarce land resources, technological change and changes in subsidy policy....

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