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Social Norms and Economic Incentives in the Welfare State

Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten; Weibull, Jörgen W. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

This paper analyzes the interplay between social norms and economic incentives in the context of work decisions in the modern welfare state. We assume that to live off one's own work is a social norm, and that the larger the population fraction adhering to this norm, the more intensely it is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010600196

Arbetslöshetsersättningen i Sverige: Motiv, regler och effekter

Björklund, Anders; Holmlund, Bertil - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1982

No abstract.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818370

Redistribution, Occupational Choice and Intergenerational Mobility: Does Wage Equality Nail the Cobbler to His Last?.

Sjogren, A. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

The classical Roy-model of selection on the labor market is extended in order to analyze intergenerational mobility. This is done by linking ability uncertainty to family background. I derive implications for the allocation of talent and for background dependent earnings patterns within...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670118

The European Unemployment Dilemma.

Ljungqvist, L; Sargent, T-J - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

Post World War II European welfare states experienced several decades of relatively low unemployment, followed by a plague of persistently high unemployment since the 1980's. We impute the higher unemployment to welfare states' diminished ability to cope with more turbulent economic times, such...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005780376

Social Norms and Economic Incentives in the Welfare State.

Lindbeck, A; Nyberg, S; Weibull, J-W - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

This paper analyzes the interplay between social norms and economic incentives in the context of work decision in the modern welfare state. We assume that to live off one's own work is a social norm, and that the larger the population fraction adhering to this norm, the more intensely it is felt...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005780383

The Efficiency of Innovation Subsidies

Fölster, Stefan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989

State subsidies to R & D or innovative investments in firms are organized in many different ways. Examples from the plethora of extant subsidy instruments are tax incentives, grants to researchers, project grants, loans, conditional loans, and grants with royalty rights. Very little is currently...

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The Efficiency of Innovation Subsidies

Fölster, Stefan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989

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Are High-Growth Firms Overrepresented in High-Tech Industries?

Daunfeldt, Sven-Olof; Elert, Niklas; Johansson, Dan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015

It is frequently argued that policymakers should target high-tech firms, i.e., firms with high R&D intensity, because such firms are considered more innovative and therefore potential fast-growers. This argument relies on the assumption that the association among high-tech status, innovativeness...

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Patent Scope and Technology Choice

Färnstrand Damsgaard, Erika - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

This paper analyzes the effect of an increase in patent scope on R&D and innovation. It presents a model where patent … duplication of R&D. The model predicts that an increase in patent scope can increase the probability of innovation if the … incumbent’s profit increase from innovation is large and the patented technology has a small advantage over the alternative …

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Entrepreneurship and the Theory of Taxation

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

entrepreneurial effort, entrepre-neurial innovation and capital investment. Because of these constraints, the entrepreneurial project …

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