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Competition, wages and teacher sorting: Four lessons learned from a voucher reform

Hensvik, Lena - 2010

This paper studies how local school competition affects teacher wages at markets where wages are set via individual wage bargaining. Using regional variation in private school entry generated by a Swedish reform which allowed private schools to enter freely and a comprehensive matched employer...

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Mismatch of talent: Evidence on match quality, entry wages, and job mobility

Fredriksson, Peter; Hensvik, Lena; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2015

We examine the direct impact of idiosyncratic match quality on entry wages and job mobility using unique data on worker talents matched to job-indicators and individual wages. Tenured workers are clustered in jobs with high job-specific returns to their types of talents. We therefore measure...

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Networks and youth labor market entry

Hensvik, Lena; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2013

The paper provides an overview of existing knowledge regarding the role played by social networks in the process where …

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The strength of the weakest link: Sickness absence, internal substitutability and worker-firm matching

Hensvik, Lena; Rosenqvist, Olof - 2015

We study how employee sickness absence affects worker-firm matching. We build on the idea that firms are sensitive to absence in jobs with few substitutes (unique positions). Consistent with this, we show that unique employees are less absent conditional on individual characteristics,...

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Social networks, employee selection and labor market outcomes

Hensvik, Lena; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2013

The paper studies how social job finding networks affect firms' selection of employees and the setting of entry wages. Our point of departure is the Montgomery (1991) model of employee referrals which suggests that it is optimal for firms to hire new workers through referrals from their most...

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Manager impartiality? Worker-firm matching and the gender wage gap

Hensvik, Lena - 2011

This paper examines whether women benefit from working under female management using Swedish matched employer-employee panel data. I account for unobserved heterogeneity among both workers and firms potentially correlated with manager gender. The results show a substantial negative and...

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Evolving absorptive capacity : the mediating role of systematic knowledge management

Dabić, Marina; Vlačić, Ernest; Ramanathan, Usha; … - In: IEEE transactions on engineering management : EM 67 (2020) 3, pp. 783-793

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Evaluating R&D projects in regulated utilities : the case of power transmission utilities

Garces, Edwin; Daim, Tugrul U.; Dabić, Marina - In: IEEE transactions on engineering management : EM 70 (2023) 2, pp. 533-553

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Killer acquisitions and beyond: Policy effects on innovation strategies

Letina, Igor; Schmutzler, Armin; Seibel, Regina - 2020

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups. We show that … prohibiting killer acquisitions strictly reduces the variety of innovation projects. By contrast, we find that prohibiting other … acquisitions only has a weakly negative innovation effect, and we provide conditions under which the effect is zero. Furthermore …

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Killer acquisitions and beyond: Policy effects on innovation strategies

Letina, Igor; Schmutzler, Armin; Seibel, Regina - 2021

This paper provides a theory of strategic innovation project choice by incumbents and start-ups which serves as a … foundation for the analysis of acquisition policy. We show that prohibiting acquisitions has a weakly negative innovation effect …

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