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Firms and skills : the evolution of worker sorting
Håkanson, Christina; Lindqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2015
We document a significant increase in the sorting of workers by cognitive and non-cognitive skills across Swedish firms between 1986 and 2008. The weight of the evidence suggests that the increase in sorting is due to stronger complementarities between worker skills and technology. In...
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How important are ICT and R&D investments for value added in the Swedish business sector?
Edquist, Harald; Henrekson, Magnus - 2015
Since the mid-1990s value added has grown faster in the Swedish business sector than in the business sector of most other OECD countries. We investigate the association between ICT and R&D capital and value added in the Swedish non-farm business sector. By estimating neoclassical production...
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Does hedonic price indexing change our interpretation of economic history? : evidence from Swedish electrification
Edquist, Harald (contributor) - 2008
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Parallel development? : Productivity growth following electrification and the ICT revolution
Edquist, Harald (contributor) - 2007
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Multiple births, birth quality and maternal labor supply : analysis of IVF reform in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2019
In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003 …
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Non-standard employment in Sweden
Skedinger, Per - 2018
In Sweden, as in many other countries, marginal groups tend to be overrepresented in non-standard employment. A … considerably smaller in Sweden, both for natives and foreign born, than those that have been found for other countries. This may be … due to a highly compressed wage structure and extensive coverage of collective bargaining in Sweden. On the whole, the …
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Digitization-based automation and occupational dynamics
Gardberg, Malin; Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; … - 2019
decades. We show that employment and wage shares of occupations with a higher automation risk have declined in Sweden over the …
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Does country level social trust predict the size of the sharing economy?
Bergh, Andreas; Funcke, Alexander - 2016
The sharing economy (peer-to-peer based sharing or renting activities coordinated through community-based online services) is typically assumed to be closely related to social trust. The two sharing economy companies Airbnb and Flipkey exist in over 100 countries, allowing us to construct a...
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From Gutenberg to Google : the internet is adopted earlier if ancestors had advanced information technology in 1500 AD
Ljunge, Martin - 2019
Individuals with ancestry from countries with advanced information technology in 1500 AD, such as movable type and paper, adopt the internet faster than those with less advanced ancestry. The analysis illustrates persistence over five centuries in information technology adoption in European and...
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The value of information in technology adoption
Islam, Asad; Ushchev, Philip; Zenou, Yves; Zhang, Xin - 2020
We develop a theoretical model in which technology adoption decisions are based on the information received from others about the quality of a new technology and on their risk attitudes. We test the predictions of this model using a randomized field experiment in Bangladesh. We show that the...
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