There is a tendency in Europe that older individuals are those most prone to start a new firm. This paper analyses if this statement is true also for Sweden. A first approach is to analyze the tendency at the regional level where the influnce from different age cohorts on the rate of new firm...

We find that nearly 60 percent of the highly educated individuals in natural science, technology and manufacturing and health and medicine don’t stay in their region of education and they have an average income that is higher than those that stay. In this paper we explore the...

This paper analyse how previous experience and affiliation influence individual employees but also the current employers. Knowledge can be embodied in several different forms, in individuals, in books, in machines, or in processes. Human capital refers to embodied knowledge in individuals,...