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The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture … knowledge and market opportunities internationally. The rapid evolution of national economies and the ways to conduct knowledge …-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts to pursue a deeper understanding of the globalization of corporate R&D and the …
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We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of … function of individual wealth while the introduction of start-up costs tends to flatten this relationship. The theoretical … business start-up costs. We use three highly comparable micro datasets (SHARE, ELSA and HRS) providing harmonized data on …
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This study analyses the development of the economic well-being of the elderly in Sweden since 1990 - a period … Survey. The elderly were not isolated as pensions were cut, full indexation abandoned and taxes increased during Sweden … elderly. Overall, poverty among the elderly in Sweden remains low in an international perspective and our analysis leads us to …
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are significantly different to private counterparts. Overall results, however, show that the privatization in Sweden was …
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This paper investigates the development of poverty in Sweden using micro data derived from tax files for the city of … of present-day Sweden: the dual earner system. …
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metropolitan regions of Sweden by using a relative new operationalization of the neighbourhood concept. Neighbourhoods are …
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This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden …
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In addition to neighbourhoods of residence, family and places of work play important roles in producing and reproducing ethnic segregation. Therefore, recent research on ethnic segregation and contact is increasingly turning its attention from residential areas towards other important domains of...
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Social assistance receipt among immigrants in relation to receipt among natives in Sweden is investigated. A background … interpreted. Most out-payment for social assistance in Sweden refers to foreign born persons although the category makes up 14 … percent of the population. While some part of the high costs can be attributed to needs to maintaining recent refugees, this …
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The extent to which socioeconomic (dis)advantage is transmitted between generations is receiving increasing attention from academics and policymakers. However, few studies have investigated whether there is a spatial dimension to this intergenerational transmission of (dis)advantage. Drawing...
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