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Outward FDI and Parent Exports and Employment : Japan, the United States, and Sweden

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2007

Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income level. This relationship is similar to that found for...

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What Do Rich Countries Trade with Each Other? R&D and the Composition of U.S. And Swedish Trade

Blomstrom, Magnus - 2010

the importance of trade. Sweden and the United States possess similar factor endowments and have converged in overall …

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Foreign Direct Investment and Employment : Home Country Experience in the United States and Sweden

Blomstrom, Magnus; Fors, Gunnar; Lipsey, Robert E. - 2021

We compare the relation between foreign affiliate production and parent employment in U.S. manufacturing multinationals with that in Swedish firms. U.S. multinationals appear to have allocated some of their more labor intensive operations selling in world markets to affiliates in developing...

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The Taxation of Income from Capital : A Comparative Study of the U.S., U.K., Sweden and West Germany--Comparisons of Effective Tax Rates--

King, Mervyn; Fullerton, Don - 2021

This working paper presents Chapter 7 of a book to be published for the National Bureau of Economic Research by the University of Chicago Press. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital in four countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and...

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The Export Performance of Swedish and U.S. Multinationals

Blomstrom, Magnus; Lipsey, Robert E. - 2021

While the U.S. and Sweden both lost more than 20 per cent of their shares of world and developed countries' exports of …. These developments suggest that the declining trade shares of the U.S. and Sweden were not due mainly to deterioration in … Sweden, and in all industry groups, with one exception, the multinationals' export shares increased relative to those of …

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The Taxation of Income from Capital : A Comparative Study of the U.S., U.K., Sweden, and West Germany--The Theoretical Framework--

King, Mervyn; Fullerton, Don - 2021

This working paper presents Chapter 2 of a book that has been submitted to the University of Chicago Press for publication consideration. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital infour countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and including...

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Practical Monetary Policy : Examples from Sweden and the United States

Svensson, Lars E. O. - 2012

In the summer of 2010, the Federal Reserve's and the Swedish Riksbank's inflation forecasts were below the former's mandate-consistent rate and the latter's target, respectively, and their unemployment forecasts were above sustainable rates. Given the mandates of the Federal Reserve and the...

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Future Skill Shortages in the U.S. Economy?

Neumark, David - 2011

The impending retirement of the baby boom cohort represents the first time in the history of the United States that such a large and well-educated group of workers will exit the labor force. This could imply skill shortages in the U.S. economy. We develop near-term labor force projections of the...

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Failing the Test? The Flexible U.S. Job Market in the Great Recession

Freeman, Richard B. - 2013

The Great Recession tested the ability of the "great U.S. jobs machine" to limit the severity of unemployment in a major economic downturn and to restore full employment quickly afterward. In the crisis the American labor market failed to live up to expectations. The level and duration of...

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The Impact of Foreclosure Delay on U.S. Employment

Herkenhoff, Kyle - 2015

This paper documents that the time required to initiate and complete a home foreclosure rose from about 9 months on average prior to the Great Recession to an average of 15 months during the Great Recession and afterward. We refer to these changes as foreclosure delay. We also document that many...

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