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Explaining National Differences in the Size and Industrial Distribution of Employment

Davis, Steven J.; Henrekson, Magnus - 1997

What factors determine national differences in the size and industry distribution of employment? This study stresses the role of business taxation, employment security laws, credit market policies, wage-setting institutions and the size of the public sector. We characterize these aspects of the...

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Wage-Setting Institutions as Industrial Policy

Henrekson, Magnus; Davis, Steven J. - 2000

Centralized wage-setting institutions compress relative wages. Motivated by this fact, we investigate the effects of centralized wage setting on the industry distribution of employment. We examine Sweden's industry distribution from 1960 to 1994 and compare it to the U.S. distribution over the...

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Incentives for Academic Entrepreneurship and Economic Performance: Sweden and the United States

Henrekson, Magnus; Rosenberg, Nathan - 2000

sharp focus. In particular, academic entrepreneurship, i.e., the variety of ways in which academics take direct part in the … commercialization of research, is widely discussed. The purpose of this paper is to compare academic entrepreneurship in the US and … entrepreneurship compared to its Swedish counterpart despite large levels of R&D spending and comprehensive government support schemes …

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Demand vs. supply driven innovations : US and Swedish experiences in academic entrepreneurship

Goldfarb, Brent (contributor); Henrekson, Magnus (contributor) - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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