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The Futile Quest for a Grand Explanation of Long-Run Government Expenditure

Durevall, Dick - 2019

the present day in Sweden and the United Kingdom. Hence, in contrast to previous studies, we evaluate the validity of … Wagner's Law between roughly 1860 and the late 1960s in Sweden, and the 1970s in the UK. This can be traced to the formation …

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‘Post-Truth’ Schooling and Marketized Education : Explaining the Decline in Sweden’s School Quality

Henrekson, Magnus - 2019

The Swedish school system suffers from profound problems with teacher recruitment and retention, knowledge decline, and grade inflation. Absenteeism is high, and psychiatric disorders have risen sharply among Swedish pupils in the last ten years. In this pioneering analysis of the consequences...

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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...

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Gazelles as Job Creators - A Survey and Interpretation of the Evidence

Henrekson, Magnus - 2019

It is often claimed that small and young firms account for a disproportionately large share of net employment growth. We conduct a meta analysis of the empirical evidence regarding whether net employment growth rather is generated by a few rapidly growing firms - so-called Gazelles - that are...

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How Should Research Performance Be Measured? A Study of Swedish Economists

Henrekson, Magnus; Waldenström, Daniel - 2019

economics in one country (Sweden) we explore how the use of different measures influence outcomes in terms of the skewness and …

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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 …

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Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Economic Dynamism : Lessons from a Comparison of the United States and Sweden

Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - 2012

, who are renowned specialists in the area and with deep knowledge of the pertinent institutions in Sweden and the US. These …

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'Post-Truth' Schooling and Marketized Education : Explaining the Decline in Sweden's School Quality

Henrekson, Magnus; Wennström, Johan - 2019

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Product market reforms and incentives to innovate in Sweden

Edquist, Harald; Henrekson, Magnus - 2013

strong economic development in Sweden during the last two decades, namely product market reforms and incentives to innovate …

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The social background of elite executives: The Swedish case

Henrekson, Magnus; Lyssarides, Odd - 2016

Sweden is often described as a country where intergenerational social mobility is high, but research also shows that … mobility for an extreme elite group in society: the CEOs of Sweden's 30 largest public firms since 1945. To our knowledge … former and current CEOs who grew up in Sweden and born between the late1800s and 1970. We have information about paternal …

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