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The Evolution of Manufacturing Technology and its Impact on Industrial Structure: An International Study
Carlsson, Bo - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1988
This paper shows that plant and firm size in manufacturing, and especially in engineering industry, in several Western industrial countries has declined since the early 1970s. Two hypotheses explaining the decline are advanced. One is "de-glomeration" or specialization: the divestiture of...
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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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The Multi-Dimensional Nature of Labor Demand and Skill-Biased Technical Change
Mellander, Erik - 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.,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645353
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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.,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005780378
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Income Distribution and Labour Market Discrimination: A Case Study of Namibia
Ekström, Erika - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998
This thesis contains two studies. The first study investigates the income distribution among Namibian households. The second study examines the differences in earnings between males and females in the Namibian labour market. In both studies we use the 1993/1994 Namibia Household Income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645402
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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...
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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework
Douhan, Robin; van Praag, Mirjam - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
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Entrepreneurship and Institutions
Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
In this paper entrepreneurs are defined as agents who bring about economic change by combining their own effort with other factors of production in search of economic rents. The institutional setup is argued to determine both the supply and direction of entrepreneurial activity. Four key...
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The Political Economy of Entrepreneurship: An Introduction
Douhan, Robin; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
In this introductory chapter to a collective volume dealing with the political economy of entrepreneurship,* we argue, based on a suggested unifying framework, that political economy is a fruitful approach to entrepreneurship. The importance of institutions in structuring such an analysis is...
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