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Skedinger, Per - 2021

In Sweden, as in many other countries, marginal groups tend to be overrepresented in nonstandard employment. A … considerably smaller in Sweden, both for natives and foreign born, than those that have been found for other countries. This may be … due to a highly compressed wage structure and extensive coverage of collective bargaining in Sweden. On the whole, 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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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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Ballooning Bureaucracy : Tracking the Growth of High-Skilled Administration within Swedish Higher Education

Andersson, Fredrik; Jordahl, Henrik; Kärnä, Anders - 2021

Organizations, both non-profit and for-profit, needs to allocate labor for both production as well as internal administration. If this allocation is skewed towards internal administration, organizations, and especially non-profit organizations, might develop sclerosis over time with too much...

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How Much Does Sweden Invest in Intangible Assets?

Edquist, Harald Olof - 2010

In this paper I attempt to replicate for Sweden the Corrado, Hulten and Sichel (2006) and Marrano and Haskel (2006 … intangibles in Sweden in 2004 was 277 billion SEK or 10.6 percent of total GDP. Based on total spending it can be estimated that …

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Swedish Labor Income Taxation (1862–2013)

Du Rietz, Gunnar - 2014

This paper presents annual Swedish time series data on the top marginal tax wedge and marginal tax wedges on labor income for a low-, average- and high-income earners for the period 1862 to 2013. The tax wedges were initially low and the tax system proportional. The tax wedges began to increase...

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Taxation of Goods and Services in Sweden (1862–2013)

Stenkula, Mikael - 2014

This paper presents annual Swedish time series data regarding consumption taxes, i.e., the indirect taxation of goods and services, for the 1862-2013 period. As a share of total state tax revenue, consumption tax revenue was high at the beginning of the period, although as a share of GDP, it was...

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R&D in Swedish Multinational Corporations

Fors, Gunnar - 2020

Using unique data on Swedish multinational corporations (MNCs), this study investigates several dimensions relating to industrial R&D. The development in the latter part of the 1980s is emphasized. Between 1978 and 1990, R&D intensity of the Swedish MNCs almost doubled from about 2 to 4 percent....

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Domestic and Foreign Investment by Swedish Multinationals

Svensson, Roger - 2020

In the 1980s, there was a huge increase in the outflow of foreign direct investment from Sweden to the EC. The EC …

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Verifying High Quality : Entry for Sale

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan - 2020

When and how do entrepreneurs sell their inventions? To address this issue, we develop an endogenous entry-sale asymmetric information oligopoly model. We show that lowquality inventions are sold directly or used for entry. Inventors who sell post-entry use entry to credibly reveal information...

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