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Education, Competence Development and Economic Growth - A Micro Explanation to Macro Economic Growth
Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1992
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010685071
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The Effect of Employment Protection on Labor Productivity
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015
The theoretical predictions of how employment protection affects firm productivity are ambiguous. In this paper I study … the effect of employment protection rules on labor productivity using micro data on Swedish firms. A reform of the … employment protection rules in 2001 made it possible for small firms with less than eleven employees to exempt two workers from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261209
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Om förlängd skolgång
Eliasson, Gunnar; Kazamaki Ottersten, Eugenia - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1994
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611587
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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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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 by employers or differences in productive capacities between men and women. We note that where piece-rate work is performed, wages should in principle reflect productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019064
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The Making of a Manager: Evidence from Military Officer Training
Grönqvist, Erik; Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015
We show that officer training during the Swedish military service has a strong positive effect on the probability to attain a managerial position later in life. The most intense type of officer training increases the probability of becoming a civilian manager by about 5 percentage points, or 75...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276392
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Are CEOs Born Leaders? Lessons from Traits of a Million Individuals
Keloharju, Matti; Knüpfer, Samuli - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
Our study combines a near-exhaustive sample of CEOs of Swedish companies with data on their cognitive and non-cognitive ability and height at age 18. Although CEOs, and large-company CEOs in particular, have better traits than the population on average, they are neither exceptional in any of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255285
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The Division of Labor and the Market for Organizations
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis 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 toward multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the division...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082494
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Compulsory Education and Jack-of-all-trades Entrepreneurs
Douhan, Robin - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
Can educational institutions explain occupational choice between wage employment and entrepreneurship? This paper … educational institutions. Institutions, in turn, differ with respect to mandatory time in school and the scope of the curriculum …. Implications of the theory are tested using Swedish data for a school reform. Empirical results support the main theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025459
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Intelligence, Self-confidence and Entrepreneurship
Asoni, Andrea - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011
I investigate the effect of human capital on entrepreneurship using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth - 1979. I find that individuals with higher measured intelligence and self-confidence are more likely to be entrepreneurs. Furthermore I present evidence suggesting that intelligence and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358944