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Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development: Evidence from the 19th century Sweden
Tyrefors Hinnerich, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; … - 2017
This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that landed elites may block technological change and economic development if they fear that they will lose future political power (Acemoglu and Robinson (2002, 2006, and 2012). It exploits a plausible exogenous change in the distribution of political...
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The Labor Market Returns to Cognitive and Noncognitive Ability: Evidence from the Swedish Enlistment
Lindqvist, Erik; Westman, Roine - 2009
productivity irrespective of occupation or ability level, though it seems to be of particular importance for workers in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320302
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The Labor Market Returns to Cognitive and Noncognitive Ability : Evidence from the Swedish Enlistment
Lindqvist, Erik - 2015
productivity irrespective of occupation or ability level, though it seems to be of particular importance for workers in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012707297
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JAQ of all trades: Job mismatch, firm productivity and managerial quality
Corragio, Luca; Pagano, Marco; Scognamiglio, Annalisa; … - 2022
Does the matching between workers and jobs help explain productivity differentials across firms? To address this … machine learning techniques. The proposed measure is positively and significantly associated with labor earnings over workers … including workers' occupations, and used to explore the effect of corporate restructuring on workers' allocation and careers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013330006
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Non-standard employment in Sweden
Skedinger, Per - 2018
decomposition of the employment rate of full-time workers on permanent contracts reveals that non-standard employment contributes to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917080
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Self-employed immigrants and their employees: Evidence from Swedish employer-employee data
Hammarstedt, Mats; Miao, Chizheng - 2018
We present a study of immigrant self-employment in Sweden using the recent matched employer-employee data from 2014. We find large variations in self-employment rates among immigrant groups as well as between immigrants with different points for their time immigration to Sweden. High...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917111
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Labor market effects of a youth summer employment program in Sweden
Knutsson, Daniel; Tyrefors, Björn - 2024
We evaluate a non-targeted summer youth employment program (SYEP) for high school students aged 16-19 in Stockholm, Sweden, where public sector job offers were as good as randomly assigned. In contrast to previous studies evaluating SYEP that targeted groups with lower socioeconomic status, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014542232
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The turnaround of Swedish industry: Reforms, firm diversity and job and productivity dynamics
Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2015
In this paper, we argue that fundamental reforms of the Swedish business sector can explain the remarkable productivity and employment growth that followed the deep economic crisis in Sweden in the early 1990s. In the 1970s and 1980s, Sweden had one of the most regulated business sectors in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442470
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Minimum Wages and Firm-Level Employment in a Developing Country
Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2020
The effect of minimum wages on employment is a matter of debate, and the existing empirical literature contains mixed results. One reason for this is the methodological difficulties involved where changes in minimum wages are endogenous to other important economic changes. To overcome this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615397
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International Trade and Labor Market Integration of Immigrants
Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020
We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615411