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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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Recruitment to Sheltered Employment: Evidence from Samhall, a Swedish State-Owned Company

Skedinger, Per; Widerstedt, Barbro - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003

also provide incentives at the individual level for using Samhall as a means of escaping unemployment rather than as an … the hazards for some, but not all, disability groups. Individuals without disabilities tend to be hired by the company … unemployment. This is consistent both with Samhall acting as an employer of last resort and the existence of incentives among …

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Evaluations of Swedish Labor Market Policy

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

Sweden has for a long time spent large resources on labor market policies targeted to the unemployed. In the Anglo-Saxon labor economics literature new methods have been developed for the purpose of estimating the effects of such policies. This paper presents the new methods in this field and...

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Are Objective, Official Measures of Disability Reliable?

Johansson, Per; Skedinger, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005

The issue considered in this study is whether objective, official reports on disability status are reliable. While … there is a rather large literature on the reliability of self-reported disability, evidence regarding objective data is … Employment Service of objective, official disability measures due to incentives to exaggerate disability. …

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Do Payroll Tax Cuts Raise Youth Employment?

Egebark, Johan; Kaunitz, Niklas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

In 2007, the Swedish employer-paid payroll tax was cut on a large scale for young workers, substantially reducing labor costs for this group. Using Difference-in-Differences paired with exact matching, we estimate a small impact, both on employment and on wages, implying a labor demand...

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Effects of Payroll Tax Cuts for Young Workers

Skedinger, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

In response to high and enduring youth unemployment, large payroll tax cuts for young workers were implemented in two …

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Industrial Targeting: Defensive or Offensive Strategies in a Neo-Schumpeterian Perspective

Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1986

This paper introduces an experimental economy with boundedly rational agents that compete with local, and largely incommunicable industrial knowledge, in an international market environment with more or less unbounded, commercial opportunities. Predictability of outcomes at the micro level is...

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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...

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The Making of a Manager: Evidence from Military Officer Training

Grönqvist, Erik; Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015

We show that officer training during the Swedish military service has a strong positive effect on the probability to attain a managerial position later in life. The most intense type of officer training increases the probability of becoming a civilian manager by about 5 percentage points, or 75...

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Are CEOs Born Leaders? Lessons from Traits of a Million Individuals

Keloharju, Matti; Knüpfer, Samuli - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

Our study combines a near-exhaustive sample of CEOs of Swedish companies with data on their cognitive and non-cognitive ability and height at age 18. Although CEOs, and large-company CEOs in particular, have better traits than the population on average, they are neither exceptional in any of the...

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