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Wage and employment determination in volatile times : Sweden 1913-1939
Holmlund, Bertil - 2012 - This version: April 18, 2012
The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533963
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Studies on the determinants and effects of health, inequality and labour supply : micro and macro evidence
Nahum, Ruth-Ai͏̈da - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003453440
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Essays on exchange rates and macroeconomic stability
Bergvall, Anders - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001705059
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Political Power, Resistance to Technological Change and Economic Development : Evidence from the 19th Century Sweden
Tyrefors, Björn - 2017
This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that landed elites may block technological change and economic development if they fear that they will lose future political power (Acemoglu and Robinson (2002, 2006, and 2012). It exploits a plausible exogenous change in the distribution of political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953397
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Swedish Lessons : How Important are ICT and R&D to Economic Growth?
Edquist, Harald Olof - 2015
Since the mid-1990s value added has grown faster in the Swedish business sector than in most other OECD countries. We investigate the association between information and communications technology (ICT) and research and development (R&D) capital and value added in the Swedish non-farm business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021402
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Economic Performance and Work Activity in Sweden after the Crisis of the Early 1990s
Davis, Steven J.; Henrekson, Magnus - 2019
explanation for Sweden's weak performance with respect to market work activity highlights the role of high tax rates on labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014225048
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Characteristics and Performance of New Firms and Spinoffs in Sweden
Andersson, Martin - 2012
We analyze the rate of formation, the characteristics, and the performance of different types of new firms in Sweden … over a decade. Comparisons to Denmark, Brazil, and the U.S. suggest that the environment for new firm formation in Sweden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110907
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The nature of risk preferences : evidence from insurance choices
Barseghyan, Levon; Molinari, Francesca; O'Donoghue, Ted; … - 2012
We use data on insurance deductible choices to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates "standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621724
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Covid-19 full-dose vaccination across uninsured populations : evidence across counties in the United States
Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2022
study is on determining whether a lack of health insurance significantly impacted vaccination propensities. If it is indeed … the case that a lack of health insurance mattered, this would be informative for policymakers since they tried to address … vaccines were made available free of cost to the public in the United States, irrespective of their insurance status. A policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013482631
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Learning from the past : trends in executive compensation over the twentieth century
Frydman, Carola (contributor) - 2008
In recent years, a large academic debate has tried to explain the rapid rise in CEO pay experienced over the past three decades. In this article, I review the main proposed theories, which span views of compensation as the result of a competitive labor market for executives to theories based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790763