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Dual Labor Markets, Efficiency Wages, and Search

Albrecht, James W.; Vroman, Susan B. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1990

No abstract.

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Liberalized Trade and Worker-Firm Matching

Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

matching between workers and firms in export-oriented industries. Changes that reduce the cost of imports have an ambiguous … impact on matching. We combine detailed Swedish matched worker-firm data from 1995 – 2005 with tariff data to test these …

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Globalization and Imperfect Labor Market Sorting

Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

evidence that openness improves the matching between workers and firms in export-oriented industries. This suggests that there … efficiency of the matching process in the labor market. On the other hand, we find no evidence that openness affects the degree … of matching in import-competing industries. These results remain unchanged after adding controls for technical change at …

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Reorganization of Firms and Labor Market Inequality.

Lindbeck, A.; Snower, D.J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1995

In what follows, we examine the consequences of the development for the reorganization of work, the breack-down of occupational barriers, the transformation of job opportunities, and the implications for inequality in the labor market.

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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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Taxes and Job Mobility in Sweden.

Lundborg, P. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1995

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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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A Note on Social Norms and Transfers

Sundén, David; Weibull, Jörgen W. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

This note elaborates an extension of the paper "Social Norms, the Welfare State, and Voting" by Lindbeck, Nyberg, and Weibull [1]. That paper studies the effects of a social norm against living off others work. In the welfare-state context of their model, this means that individuals who live on...

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Full Employment and the Welfare State.

Lindbeck, A. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996

What were the asserted complementarities between the welfare state and full-employment policies, and why do these complementarities look less convincing today?

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The West European Employment Problem.

Lindbeck, A. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996

How do we explain the poor employment performance in Western Europe since about the-1970s? This question is in fact twofold : What initiated the dramatic rise in employment, and waht mechanisms have made it continue for so long? My attemps to answer these questions from the basis for a...

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