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Childcare Costs and the Demand for Children – Evidence from a Nationwide Reform

Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child … care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous … costs on fertility in a context in which child care enrolment is almost universal and the labor force participation of …

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Fertility and the Opportunities of Children: Evidence on Quantity-Quality Interactions in Sweden

Holmlund, Bertil - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1984

No abstract.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684423

Företagens, institutionernas och marknadernas roll i Sveriges ekonomiska kris

Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1993

No abstract.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818376

Legitimacy and the Cost of Government

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian; Lipka, David - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

While previous research documents a negative relationship between government size and economic growth, suggesting an economic cost of big government, a given government size generally affects growth differently in different countries. As a possible explanation of this differential effect, we...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945001

Economic Growth and the Dynamics of Wage Determination: A Micro Simulation Study of the Stability Consequences of Deficient Variation in Factor Prices and Micro Structures

Eliasson, Gunnar; Lindberg, Thomas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1986

Swedish Manufacturing Industry is said to be technologically and commercially in good shape. While Swedish wage levels were higher than in all industrial countries in the mid-70s, wages - expressed in international currencies - have now dropped to a mid-position, and real rates of return are...

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Productivity Analysis: A Micro-to-Macro Perspective

Carlsson, Bo - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1987

This paper raises several issues concerning productivity analysis. An attempt is made to demonstrate the usefulness of a micro-based approach to productivity analysis which challenges some basic assumptions of conventional analyses based on aggregate production functions. With the help of a...

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Multinationals, Endogenous Growth and Technological Spillovers: Theory and Evidence

Braconier, Henrik; Baldwin, Richard E.; Forslid, Rikard - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999

FDI has received surprisingly little attention in theoretical and empirical work on openness and growth. This paper presents a theoretical growth model where MNCs directly affect the endogenous growth rate via technological spillovers. This is novel since other endogenous growth models with...

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International Financial Liberalization and Industry Growth

Vlachos, Jonas; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2002

The growth effects of international financial liberalization and integration are investigated using the methodology and data developed by Rajan and Zingales (1998). The main result is that industries highly dependent on external financing do not experience higher growth in value added in...

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Trade, Southern Integration, and Uneven Development

Trofimov, G. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

The paper demonstrates how trade between developing countries can cause the divergence of long-run growth among these countries. The model describes two symmetric countries trading with each other and the industrial rest of the world. Bilateral trade occurs at any moment if the countries have...

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Growth Effects of Government Expenditure and Taxation in Rich Countries.

Folster, S.; Henrekson, M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

Empirical studies of the relation between government size and economic growth come to widely different conclusions. In part this may reflect the fact that many studies report regressions that contain severe multicollinearity, heteroscedasticity, simultaneity and other specification problems....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005671123