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Liberalized Trade and Worker-Firm Matching
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
Recent theoretical analysis suggests that a reduction in the cost of exporting increases the degree of assortative matching between workers and firms in export-oriented industries. Changes that reduce the cost of imports have an ambiguous impact on matching. We combine detailed Swedish matched...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010542070
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Globalization and Imperfect Labor Market Sorting
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010
This paper focuses on the ability of the labor market to correctly match heterogeneous workers to jobs within a given industry and the role that globalization plays in that process. Using matched worker-firm data from Sweden, we find strong evidence that openness improves the matching between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784427
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Long-Run Changes in the Concentration of Wealth: An Overview of Recent Findings
Waldenström, Daniel; Ohlsson, Henry; Roine, Jesper - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
The objective of this paper is to study the dynamics of the wealth distribution over the path of economic development. More specifically, we are interested in distinguishing between changes which seem to be country specific and characteristics shared by all countries. A historical account of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645360
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Pitfalls in the Measurement of the Return to Education: An Assessment Using Swedish Data
Kazamaki Ottersten, Eugenia; Mellander, Erik; Meyerson, … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1994
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818483
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Heterogeneous Firms, Globalization and the Distance Puzzle
Larch, Mario; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Sirries, Steffen; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013
Despite the strong pace of globalization, the distance effect on trade is persistent or even growing over time (Disdier and Head, 2008). To solve this distance puzzle, we use the recently developed gravity equation estimator from Helpman, Melitz and Rubinstein (2008), HMR henceforth. Using three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240429
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The Evolution of Top Incomes in an Egalitarian Society; Sweden, 1903–2004
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006
, starting from levels of inequality approximately equal to those in other Western countries at the time, the income share of the … the lower half of the top decile – consisting mainly of wage earners – experiences virtually no change over this period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645425
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Comment on Feldstein and Poterba’s “Unemployment Insurance and Reservation Wages”.
Lang, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1984
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684400
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The Wage Policy of a Firm when Recruitment is a Wage Dependent Poisson Process and Wages are Downward Rigid
Schager, Nils Henrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1986
that the optimal policy is to establish a constant wage level over future employment states. The paper explores the further …The paper contains an analysis of a firm's optimal wage and recruitment policy, when the dynamic labor supply to the … general way. Provided that the firm is not allowed to lower its wage level over time, it has recently been shown by the author …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684410
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Dual Labor Markets, Efficiency Wages, and Search
Albrecht, James W.; Vroman, Susan B. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1990
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685034
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Wage Fairness and International Trade Theory and Policy
Agell, Jonas; Lundborg, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1991
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685040