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A Procedure for Testing the Signalling Hypothesis
Albrecht, James W. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1980
This paper develops a procedure for testing the signaling hypothesis as advanced by Spence, et. al. The approach used is to examine directly the question of whether employers use education for purely informational purposes in their hiring decisions. An application of the method to a recruitment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684533
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Industrial Subsidies in Sweden: Macro-Economic Effects and an International Comparison
Carlsson, Bo - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1982
Between 1970 and 1978, industrial subsidies in Sweden rose from 4.9 % to 16 % of value added in mining and manufacturing. Most of this increase was due to increased wage subsidies to specific firms facing acute difficulties. The Swedish industrial subsidy program seems to be both larger in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684541
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Theories of Pay and Unemployment: Survey Evidence from Swedish Manufacturing Firms
Agell, Jonas; Lundborg, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1993
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818377
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Causes of Wage Increases in Swedish Manufacturing. A Remarkable Case of Regular Behaviour
Schager, Nils Henrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1988
The present study is a theoretical and empirical investigation into the aggregate wage dynamics of Swedish manufacturing. It contains three essential results: <p> •a rigorous search theoretical model of the wage behaviour of firms is presented and adapted for application to aggregate data <p> •the...</p></p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019054
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Does Hedonic Price Indexing Change Our Interpretation of Economic History? Evidence from Swedish Electrification
Edquist, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
indexes. Would hedonic price indexing also have large effects on measured price and productivity during other technological … Sweden 1900–35. The results show that during the productivity boom of the 1920s, the constant prices for electric motors … high productivity growth in the industry producing electric motors 1920–29. In contrast to Sweden, the US annual total …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082490
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Is Human Capital the Key to the IT Productivity Paradox?
Mellander, Erik; Savvidiou, Eleni; Gunnarsson, Gudmundur - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001
Unlike previous analyses, we consider (i) that IT may affect productivity growth both directly and indirectly, through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419532
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Is Human Capital the Key to the IT Productivity Paradox?.
Gunnarsson, G.; Mellander, E.; Savvidou, E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001
Unlike previous analyses, we consider (i) that IT may affect productivity growth both directly and indirectly, through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639301
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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 Demand for Energy in Swedish Manufacturing
Dargay, Joyce M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1980
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684438
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Förändrad tillverkningsorganisation och dess återverkningar på kapitalbildningen: En studie vid ASEA
Nilsson, Sam - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1980
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684444