Utgångspunkten i denna uppsats är att ekonomisk tillväxt och allmänt välstånd kan betraktas som ett resultat av att kunskap om hur nya och bättre varor och tjänster kan produceras allt effektivare byggs upp och tas i bruk. Detta sker inom ramen för kompetensblock, vilka definierar den...

Svensk och internationell forskning har visat att nya och små företag spelar en viktig roll för att skapa industriell utveckling och ekonomisk tillväxt. Det finns dock belägg för att Sverige i ett internationellt perspektiv kännetecknas av en låg nyetableringstakt och en brist på små...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate if the industry context matters for whether Gibrat's law is rejected or not using a dataset that consists of all limited firms in 5-digit NACE-industries in Sweden during 1998-2004. The results reject Gibrat's law on an aggregate level, since small...

The purpose of this paper is to distinguish between the determinants of new start-ups and in migration of firms using a data-set that covers 13,471 limited liability firms in the Swedish wholesale trade industries during the period 2000- 2004. Our results indicate that the presence of a...

In the literature concerning the geography of new firm formation, explanatory variables pertaining to industrial organization and political economy are seldom considered. Such variables were thus included when investigating what conditions influenced entry of Swedish limited liability firms...

The purpose of this paper is to study who high- growth firms (HGFs) hire using a matched employer-employee dataset for all knowledge intensive industries in Sweden, where high growth is measured over the period 1999-2002. The results indicate that HGFs to a larger extent employ young people,...

Prior studies have defined high-growth firms (HGFs) in terms of sales or employment, and analyzed their contribution to employment growth. We define HGFs by employment and sales and add definitions of value added and productivity. We examine the contribution of HGFs to employment growth,...

Empirical studies demonstrate that most net job-growth originates from a small number of high-growth firms (HGFs). The purpose of this paper is to analyze whether firm ownership – family, or private non-family – matters for being a HGF, using data covering all firms in Sweden during...