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High-Speed Broadband and Academic Achievement in Teenagers: Evidence from Sweden

Grenestam, Erik; Nordin, Martin - 2018

This study examines the effects of super-fast internet connections on the academic achievement of students in upper secondary school. We link detailed register data on around 250,000 students to local levels of access to optic fiber broadband and estimate the effect of broadband on student GPA....

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Education-occupation mismatch: Is there an income penalty?

Nordin, Martin; Persson, Inga; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2009

This paper adds to the small literature on the consequences of education-occupation mismatches. It examines the income penalty for field of education – occupation mismatches for men and women with higher education in Sweden and reveals that the penalty for such mismatches is large for both men...

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Ethnic School Segregation and Second-generation Immigrants' Human Capital

Nordin, Martin - 2011

Recent research has shown that there is a substantial skill difference in Sweden between natives and second-generation immigrants. The objective of this study is to find out whether there exists a relationship between ethnic school segregation and the individual's human capital. The variation in...

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Increasing Returns to Schooling by Ability? A Comparison Between the US and Sweden

Nordin, Martin; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2011

This study uses US survey data (NLSY) and Swedish register data to estimate the relationship between returns to schooling and ability for each country separately. A significant and positive relationship is found for Sweden but not for the US. The purpose is to propose an explanation for why such...

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Ability Heterogeneity in Intergenerational Mobility

Nordin, Martin; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2011

A rich data set gives a unique opportunity to study heterogeneity in intergenerational mobility. Here, we explore whether the intergenerational association in education and income is the same for children with different results in a cognitive ability test (the Swedish Military Enlistment test)....

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The Impact of Grade Inflation on Higher Education Enrolment and Earnings

Nordin, Martin; Heckley, Gawain; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2019

Although grade inflation is unfair and may imply inefficient allocation of human resources, current knowledge of grade …

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Immigrants' return to schooling in Sweden

Nordin, Martin - 2007

The aim of this paper is to examine if the returns to immigrants’ schooling are lower than the returns to natives’ schooling. In addition the paper tries to establish whether immigrants who invest in different amounts of Swedish education also differ in their returns to schooling. The...

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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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