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Speculation, Bubbles, and Sunspots under Structural Uncertainty
Wihlborg, Clas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1987
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684502
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The Psychology of the Entrepreneur and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship
Bengtsson, Ola; Sanandaji, Tino; Johannesson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
gender differences in entrepreneurship. Measured psychological characteristics can account for one third of the large gender … gap in entrepreneurship, but only one tenth of the smaller gender gap in self-employment. Men are one and a half times …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729197
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Like What You Like or Like What Others Like? Conformity and Peer Effects on Facebook
Egebark, Johan; Ekström, Mathias - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011
Users of the social networking service Facebook have the possibility to post status updates for their friends to read. In turn, friends may react to these short messages by writing comments or by pressing a Like button to show their appreciation. Making use of five Swedish accounts, we set up a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818392
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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 … of gender because one is paid for what one produces. With this as our point of departure, we compared men and women … easy to summarize. First, the gender wage gap is clearly smaller under piece- than under time-rate work. According to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019064
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Are Female Workers Less Productive Than Male Workers? Productivity and the Gender Wage Gap?
Meyerson, E.M.; Petersen, T.; Snartland, V. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998
It is extraordinarily difficult to determine the extent to which the gender wage gap reflects discriminatory behaviors … of gender because one is paid for what one produces. With this as our point of departure, we compared men and women … easy to summarize. First, the gender wage gap is clearly smaller under piece- than under time-rate work. According to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670114
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Women's Representation and Public Spending
Svaleryd, Helena - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
This paper studies whether the degree of women’s representation in Swedish local councils affects local public expenditure patterns. Theoretically, the individual preferences of elected representatives may have an impact on public expenditure if full policy commitment is not feasible. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645438
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019044
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Trapped, Delayed and Handicapped
Sjögren, Anna; Sällström, Susanna - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004
The dynamics of self-confidence are modelled in an environment where rational individuals optimally choose educations and occupations with the aim to acquire productive skills while learning about ability. It is shown how the presence of uninformative options can trap individuals below their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771083
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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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684467
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Social Networks
de Marti, Joan; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in particular, the two main ways of modeling network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502564