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The Impact of Upper-Secondary Voucher School Attendance on Student Achievement. Swedish Evidence Using External and Internal Evaluations

Tyrefors, Björn - 2017

Sweden has a school voucher system with universal coverage and full acceptance of corporate providers. Using a value …

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Local Multipliers and Human Capital in the US and Sweden

Moretti, Enrico - 2015

We show that every time a local economy generates a new job by attracting a new business in the traded sector, a significant number of additional jobs are created in the non-traded sector. This multiplier effect is particularly large for jobs with high levels of human capital and for high tech...

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Inherited Wealth over the Path of Development : Sweden, 1810–2010

Ohlsson, Henry - 2014

of inherited wealth in Sweden over the past two hundred years. The trends in Sweden are similar to those in France and … was similar to that in the U.S., but the savings and growth rates were much lower in Sweden than in the U.S. Rapid income … several potential explanations related to the Swedish welfare state and pension system. Sweden was “un-European” during the …

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Firm Productivity and Carbon Leakage : A Study of Swedish Manufacturing Firms

Ferguson, Shon M. - 2015

This paper examines the intensive and extensive margins of carbon leakage. The analysis uses an increase in the Swedish electricity price to identify the impact on imports at the firm and product level. Our model of heterogenous firms predicts that higher domestic electricity prices lead firms...

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Swedish Capital Income Taxation (1862–2013)

Du Rietz, Gunnar - 2018

This paper describes the evolution of capital income taxation in Sweden between 1862 and 2013, including corporate …

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Effects of Privatization on Price and Labor Efficiency : The Swedish Electricity Distribution Sector

Lundin, Erik - 2017

I examine the effects of privatization, in the form of acquisitions, in the Swedish electricity distribution sector. As the majority of the distribution networks have remained publicly owned, I use a synthetic control method to identify the effects on price and labor efficiency. In comparison to...

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Price Mimicking Under Cost-of-Service Regulation : The Swedish Water Sector

Lundin, Erik - 2017

utilities in Sweden are governed by a cost-of-service regulation, prices in neighboring municipalities should not affect the own …

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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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Taxes and the Choice of Organizational Form by Entrepreneurs in Sweden

Edmark, Karin - 2014

This paper makes use of individual data for 2004 to 2008 on owners of closely-held businesses in Sweden to estimate the …

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Minimum Wages and the Integration of Refugee Immigrants

Lundborg, Per - 2014

in Sweden; different estimation methods and models yield robust elasticities in the 1.8-2.0 range. The effects for young … Sweden for both male and female refugees. We account for spatial trends – a concern in some of the recent literature – as …

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