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Competition, Takeovers and Gender Discrimination
Heyman, Fredrik; Svaleryd, Helena; Vlachos, Jonas - 2011
Theories of taste-based discrimination predict that competitive pressures will drive discriminatory behavior out of the market. Using detailed matched employer-employee data, we analyze how firm takeovers and product market competition are related to the gender composition of the firm's...
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Are Shirking and Leisure Substitutable? An Empirical Test of Efficiency Wages Based on Urban Economic Theory
Zenou, Yves - 2014
Recent theoretical work has examined the spatial distribution of unemployment using the efficiency wage model as the mechanism by which unemployment arises in the urban economy. This paper extends the standard efficiency wage model in order to allow for behavioral substitution between leisure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068711
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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework
Douhan, Robin; van Praag, Mirjam - 2009
We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320274
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A Cross-Country Comparison of Dynamics in the Large Firm Wage Premium
Colonnelli, Emanuele - 2019
examine matched employer-employee micro-data from Brazil, Germany, Sweden, and the UK, and find that the large firm premium …
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The Effect of Centrally Bargained Wages on Firm Growth
Bustos, Emil - 2023
collective bargaining agreements in Sweden and study the impact of the nationwide bargaining that took place in 2004. I make a …
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Importing Automation and Wage Inequality Through Foreign Acquisitions
Gardberg, Malin; Heyman, Fredrik; Tåg, Joacim - 2023
Is technology or trade driving increases in wage inequality? We propose that technology interacts with trade in the form of foreign direct investments to widen domestic wage inequality. We show that foreign acquisitions of domestic firms disproportionately affect wages for workers who perform...
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Acquisitions, Multinationals and Wage Dispersion
Heyman, Fredrik; Gustavsson Tingvall, Patrik; Sjöholm, … - 2006
-multinational firms. We examine the impact of acquisitions on wage dispersion in Sweden using a large matched employer-employee data set …
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How Wage Compression Affects Job Turnover
Heyman, Fredrik - 2008
I use Swedish establishment-level panel data to test Bertola and Rogerson's (1997) hypothesis of a positive relation between the degree of wage compression and job reallocation. Results indicate that the effect of wage compression on job turnover is positive and significant in the manufacturing...
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The Evolution of Top Incomes in an Egalitarian Society; Sweden, 1903–2004
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2006
This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903-2004. We find that …. When included, Sweden's experience resembles that in the U.S. and the U.K. with sharp increases in top incomes. Excluding … capital gains, Sweden looks more like the continental European countries where top income shares have remained relatively …
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Wealth Concentration over the Path of Development: Sweden, 1873–-2006
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2007
We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320172