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Income Distribution and labour Market Discrimination : A Case Study of Namibia.

Ekstrom, E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

This thesis contains two studies. The first study investigates the income distribution among Namibian households. The second study examines the differences in earnings between males and females in the Namibian labour market. In both studies we use the 1993/1994 Namibia Household Income and...

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Income Distribution and Labour Market Discrimination: A Case Study of Namibia

Ekström, Erika - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

investigate the extent to which total income inequality is due to within-group inequality or between-group inequality we use both Theilo's (1967) entropy index T and Theil's second measure L. Income inequality is much more pronounced in … the Central/southern region than in the North/north-east region. The within-group inequality seems to be the …

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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework

Douhan, Robin; van Praag, Mirjam - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...

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The Labor Market Returns to Cognitive and Noncognitive Ability: Evidence from the Swedish Enlistment

Lindqvist, Erik; Westman, Roine - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

We use data from the military enlistment for a large representative sample of Swedish men to assess the importance of cognitive and noncognitive ability for labor market outcomes. The measure of noncognitive ability is based on a personal interview conducted by a psychologist. Unlike...

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Rates of Depreciation of Human Capital Due to Nonuse

Gustafsson, Siv - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1977

How important for success on the job is uninterrupted labor force participation? Data on labor force status for a 15 year period for individual salaried employees in Swedish Industry makes possible the estimation of the effect of years of experience and years of non-experience on earnings. One...

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Overtime and Sticky Manufacturing Wages: Do Trade and Technology Matter?

Stafford, Frank P.; Stobernack, Michael O. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989

No abstract.

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Local Multipliers and Human Capital in the US and Sweden

Moretti, Enrico; Thulin, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

We show that every time a local economy generates a new job by attracting a new business in the traded sector, a significant number of additional jobs are created in the non-traded sector. This multiplier effect is particularly large for jobs with high levels of human capital and for high tech...

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Determinants of Nordic Migration to Sweden

Lundborg, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989

No abstract.

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Sweden: A Minimum Wage Model in Need of Modification?

Skedinger, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

Swedish minimum wages are not regulated by law, but subject to bargaining between employers and trade unions and form part of collective agreements. This paper provides an overview of the Swedish minimum wage system, its characteristics and effects on employment and wages, and also discusses the...

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Are Female Workers Less Productive Than Male Workers? Productivity and the Gender Wage Gap

Meyerson, Eva M.; Petersen, Trond; Snartland, Vemund - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

It is extraordinarily difficult to determine the extent to which the gender wage gap reflects discriminatory behaviors by employers or differences in productive capacities between men and women. We note that where piece-rate work is performed, wages should in principle reflect productivity...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019064

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