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The Multi-Dimensional Nature of Labor Demand and Skill-Biased Technological Change.

Mellander, E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999

Investigating the robustness of the skill-biased technical change hypothesis, this analysis incorporates two novel features. First, effective labor is modeled as the product of a quantity measure - number of employees with a given level of education - and a quality index, depending on, i.a.,...

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Does FDI Work as a Channel for R&D Spillovers? Evidence Based on Swedish Data.

Braconier, H.; Ekholm, K.; Knarvik, K.H.M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are important in transmitting technology across national borders. Not only do they … allow for transfer of technology within the firm, but it is also believed that they are important channels for international …

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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.

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Flexible Automation in the U.S. Engineering Industries

Taymaz, Erol - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1991

No abstract.

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Firm Strategies in the Machine Tool Industry in the United States and Sweden: Responses to Technological Challenges and Global Competition

Carlsson, Bo - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1984

technology to all metalworking industry. In recent years, the machine tool industry in Western countries has had to face major …

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Micro Evidence on International Patenting

Maurseth, Per Botolf; Svensson, Roger - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

Globalization, high growth rates in high-tech industries, growing emerging markets and harmonization of patent institutions across countries have stimulated patenting in foreign markets. We use a simple model of international patenting, where the decision to patent in a foreign country depends...

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Productivity Analysis: A Micro-to-Macro Perspective

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

. The rate of technological progress as measured by the rate of change in best-practice technology seems to be less …

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Does Hedonic Price Indexing Change Our Interpretation of Economic History? Evidence from Swedish Electrification

Edquist, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

Rapid price decreases for ICT-products in the 1990s have been largely attributed to the introduction of hedonic price … with the price decreases for ICT-equipment in the 1990s, even if hedonic indexing is used. …

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The Division of Labor and the Market for Organizations

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

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Multinational Firms, Technology and Location.

Norback, P.-J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999

This paper analyzes a three-stage game where two firms choose (i) their respective technology, by deciding on a level … of R&D, (ii) whether this technology is to be used in a domestic or in a local plant and (iii) the quantity produced and … sold on the market. If technology transfer costs are fixed, "high-tech" firms tend to produce abroad, but if such costs are …

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