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Corporate Job Ladders in Europe: Wage Premia for University vs. High School Level Positions

Mellander, Erik; Skedinger, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

Investment in human capital is a central issue in the literature on economic growth. The purpose of this study is to shed light on the economic incentives for investment in university education across countries. An empirical investigation of earnings for private-sector engineers and business...

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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

performed, wages should in principle reflect productivity differences and that it is more difficult to discriminate on the basis … of the gap is due to productivity differences. The main finding is that the productivity differences between sexes in … or less independent of supposed productivity differences between men and women, while under piece-rate work. The wage gap …

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Cost and Productivity Effects of Firm Financed Training.

Ottersten, E.K.; Lindh, T.; Mellander, E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996

the cost and productivity effects, this specification is integrated into a flexible neoclassical cost function. …

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Efficiency and Ownership Structure – The Case of Poland

Modén, Karl-Markus; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

-2000. We find that foreign privatized firms have realized larger productivity gains than all types of domestic firms and that …-specific knowledge. Foreign greenfields have the highest average labour productivity, while foreign privatizations show the largest … productivity increase. …

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Cost and Productivity Effects of Firm Financed Training

Kazamaki Ottersten, Eugenia; Lindh, Thomas; Mellander, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996

the cost and productivity effects, this specification is integrated into a flexible neoclassical cost function. The …, these cost savings can be very large. The estimates of productivity effects are also positive, albeit rather small. …

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Production Hierarchies in Sweden

Tåg, Joacim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

I study the internal organization of firms using occupation data on workers in Swedish manufacturing firms. Firms with more layers are larger in size, in value added, and they pay higher wages. Firms are hierarchal in that lower layers have more workers and lower mean wage than higher layers....

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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

performed, wages should in principle reflect productivity differences and that it is more difficult to discriminate on the basis … of the gap is due to productivity differences. …

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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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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: •a rigorous search theoretical model of the wage behaviour of firms is presented and adapted for application to aggregate data •the...

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

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

It was early noted that the Phillips Curve explanation of wage dynamics lacks a solid microeconomic basis. As the explanatory unemployment variable in the Phillips relation is intuitively to be regarded as an indicator of labour scarcity, several authors have argued that the determination of...

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