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Self-employment as proxy for entrepreneurship : empirical caveats
Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael - 2010
-employment sometimes differs diametrically depending on source. Sweden is occasionally erroneously reported to show the largest increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003983855
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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 … for their time immigration to Sweden. High self-employment rates are found for male immigrants from the Middle East …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011911143
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Globalization and populism in Europe
Bergh, Andreas; Gustafsson, Anders - 2019
Recent micro-level studies have suggested that globalization - in particular, economic globalization - breeds political polarization and populism. This study examines if those results generalize by examining the country-level association between vote shares for European populist parties and...
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Competition, takeovers and gender discrimination
Heyman, Fredrik (contributor); Svaleryd, Helena (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003641133
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Is financial risk-taking behaviour genetically transmitted?
Cesarini, David (contributor) - 2008
In this paper, we use a sample of almost 30,000 Swedish mono- and dizygotic twins to study the heritability of financial risk-taking. Following a major pension reform in the year 2000, virtually all Swedish adults had to simultaneously make a finnancial decision axoecting post-retirement wealth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003756987
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Selfish and prospective : theory and evidence of pocketbook voting
Elinder, Mikael (contributor); Jordahl, Henrik (contributor) - 2008
Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003766637
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Should R&D champions be protected from foreign takeovers?
Bertrand, Olivier (contributor) - 2008
We analyze how the entry mode of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) affects affiliate R&D activities. Using unique affiliate level data for Swedish multinational firms, we first present empirical evidence that acquired affiliates have a higher level of R&D intensity than greenfield (start-up)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003766677
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Sweden : a minimum wage model in need of modification?
Skedinger, Per (contributor) - 2008
Swedish minimum wages are not regulated by law, but subject to bargaining between employers and trade unions and form part of collective agreements. This paper provides an overview of the Swedish minimum wage system, its characteristics and effects on employment and wages, and also discusses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003766696
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Intergenerational top income mobility in Sweden : capitalist dynasties in the land of equal opportunity?
Björklund, Anders (contributor); Roine, Jesper (contributor) - 2008
top percentile of the population. Our results suggest that Sweden, well-known for its egalitarian achievements, is a …. Using a large dataset of matched father-son pairs in Sweden we are able to obtain results for fractions as small as 0 ….1 percent of the population. Overall, mobility is lower for incomes than for earnings and it appears to decrease the higher up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003770045
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The evolution of top incomes in an egalitarian society; Sweden, 1903-2004
Roine, Jesper (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003358973