objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …

employment, not less. These findings continue to hold after controlling for endogenous selection effects. US investments are also … accompanied by increases in local employment and start-up rates. The paper also examines effect on wages, sales, earnings, foreign …

In Sweden, as in many other countries, marginal groups tend to be overrepresented in non-standard employment. A … decomposition of the employment rate of full-time workers on permanent contracts reveals that non-standard employment contributes to … employment figures alone. Our econometric analysis shows that the negative wage premia associated with fixed-term employment are …

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 self-employment rates are found for male immigrants from the Middle East …

. The stated motive of the reform was to boost employment; in particular to provide incentives for individuals to go from … results are sensitive with respect to how we define employment, which is especially true when we analyze different subgroups …

The availability of new internationally-harmonized innovation survey data collected from OECD countries has created … some interesting opportunities for studying the following two key areas: (1) the determinants of innovation behavior at … firm level, and (2) innovation as an important factor contributing to the economic growth. This paper looks at the …