strong economic development in Sweden during the last two decades, namely product market reforms and incentives to innovate …

and competition among public schools as well as through a large-scale introduction of private schools. We estimate the … effects of school choice and competition, using precise geographical information on the locations of school buildings and …

In a radical school choice reform in 1992, Sweden's education system was opened to private competition from independent … for-profit and non-profit schools funded by vouchers. Competition was expected to produce higherquality education at lower … secured against school competition based on phenomena that are unrelated with educational quality. Interviews with key …

This paper analyses the effects of independent-school competition on Sweden's performance in TIMSS, an international … after 2003 and is driven by for-profit schools. The results suggest that competition both slowed down Sweden's performance … shares across counties over time, it finds that increasing competition has improved TIMSS scores, an impact that appears only …

industry and the role that globalization plays in that process. Using matched worker-firm data from Sweden, we find strong … may be significant gains from globalization that have not been identified in the past - globalization may improve the … the industry level or measures of domestic anti-competitive regulations and product market competition. In addition, we …

. We examine the effect of globalization on the occupational mix using detailed Swedish data that cover all firms and a …