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Endogenous Job Destruction and Job Matching in Cities

Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

We propose a spatial search-matching model where both job creation and job destruction are endogenous. Workers are ex ante identical but not ex post since their job can be hit by a technological shock, which decreases their productivity. They reside in a city and commuting to the job center...

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Job Contact Networks and the Ethnic Minorities

Battu, Harminder; Seaman, Paul; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004

This paper examines the job finding methods of different ethnic groups in the UK. The theoretical framework shows that less assimilated ethnic unemployed workers are more likely to use their friends and family as their main method of search but they have less chance of finding a job using this...

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Job Search and Youth Unemployment: Analysis of Swedish Data

Albrecht, James W.; Holmlund, Bertil; Lang, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1988

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Search Theory, Downward Money Wage Rigidity and the Micro Foundations of the Phillips Curve

Schager, Nils Henrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1988

The present paper has two aims. The first one concerns primarily an issue of method. I set up and analyse an explicitly stochastic model of the optimal behaviour of a firm, which recruits from a search labour market. The second aim of my paper concerns very much an issue of substance in...

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Why is the Swedish Unemployment Rate So Low?

Björklund, Anders - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989

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Entrepreneurial Commercialization Choices and the Interaction between IPR and Competition Policy

Gans, Joshua S.; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

entrepreneurs with respect to commercialization as well as the rate of innovation. We find that stronger intellectual property … protection makes it more likely that entrepreneurs will commercialize by cooperating with incumbents rather than competing with …

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Institutions for the Selection of Entrepreneurs: Implications for Economic Growth and Financial Crises

Pelikan, Pavel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999

entrepreneurs and how these actions depend upon the prevailing institutions. While institutions have extensively been examined for … their influences upon the freedoms and the incentives of entrepreneurs, and thereby upon the level of employment of … resources, this paper examines their influences upon the selection of entrepreneurs, and thereby upon the efficiency of that …

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Venture Capitalists, Asymmetric Information, and Ownership in the Innovation Process

Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

where adverse selection problems between entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and incumbents are present. We show that as …

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Allocation of Economic Competence in Teams: A Comparative Institutional Analysis

Pelikan, Pavel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

Attention is called to a little explored scarce resource, termed 'economic competence', which combines features of human capital and bounded rationality, and causes a singularity in resource-allocation in society. The performance of each economy is shown to strongly depend on how this resource...

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