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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...

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Do Payroll Tax Cuts Raise Youth Employment?

Egebark, Johan; Kaunitz, Niklas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

In 2007, the Swedish employer-paid payroll tax was cut on a large scale for young workers, substantially reducing labor costs for this group. Using Difference-in-Differences paired with exact matching, we estimate a small impact, both on employment and on wages, implying a labor demand...

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Effects of Payroll Tax Cuts for Young Workers

Skedinger, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

In response to high and enduring youth unemployment, large payroll tax cuts for young workers were implemented in two …

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On Price Elasticities in Foreign Trade

Horwitz, Eva Christina - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1981

The origin of this paper was the need to provide import and export functions for the IUI-model of the Swedish economy used in the 1979 forecasting exercise, later on extended to support the analysis in the KRAN-project. This paper summarizes the results of the estimates of price elasticity’s...

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The Telephone Use in Sweden and Its Sensitivity to Prices

Sjöholm, Kent Rune - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1991

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Cross-Border Acquisitions, Multinationals and Wage Elasticities

Hakkala, Katariina; Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, Fredrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

The growing number of cross-border acquisitions has in many countries raised concerns about labor demand consequences. In this study, we use detailed firm level data to examine how increased internationalization and multinational activity affect the volatility of employment, or rather, the wage...

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Local Multipliers and Human Capital in the US and Sweden

Moretti, Enrico; Thulin, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

We show that every time a local economy generates a new job by attracting a new business in the traded sector, a significant number of additional jobs are created in the non-traded sector. This multiplier effect is particularly large for jobs with high levels of human capital and for high tech...

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Multinational Firms and Job Tasks

Nilsson Hakkala, Katariina; Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

We use Swedish matched employer-employee data to analyze the impact of multinational activity and foreign acquisitions on the relative demand for different job tasks. We contribute to the literature by using a conceptualization from the recent literature in international economics and define the...

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The Effect of Offshoring on Labor Demand: Evidence from Sweden

Ekholm, Karolina; Hakkala, Katariina - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005

We analyze the effects of offshoring of intermediate input production on labor demand in Sweden, distinguishing between workers with different educational attainments. The econometric results using data for the 1995-2000 period indicate that offshoring -- in particular to low-income countries --...

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Wages and Labour Scarcity: The Microfoundations of the Determination of Factor Shares

Schager, Nils Henrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989

explanatory unemployment variable in the Phillips relation is intuitively to be regarded as an indicator of labour scarcity … intermediate step between unemployment and wage inflation. Contributions by Kuh, Solow and Stiglitz in the late sixties follow this …, it is hard to derive the desired result that the wage share increases when unemployment falls. Monopolistic price …

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