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This paper examines two broad issues related to foreign investment by Swedish multinationals: first the effects of outward foreign direct investment on domestic investment, exports, and employment, and second, the effects on the domestic economy from the increasing division of labor between the...
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Sweden is home to remarkably many large, prosperous multinationals. We argue that this is partly the result of … have facilitated investment abroad by Swedish firms, while impeding foreign direct investment in sweden. A particularly … opposed foreign investment in Sweden. The paper outlines the development of Swedish foreign investment policies, describes the …
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advanced activities abroad and keep the low wage operations at home. Presumably this is because Sweden has lost its comparative …
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We analyse the change in family gross income inequality between 1951 and 1973. We use two new samples of the Swedish population from 1951 and 1956 containing tax register data, and compare the results with those obtained from the Swedish Level of Living survey from 1967 and 1973. Gini...
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We estimate the effects of the implementation of a compulsory work injury insurance in Sweden in 1978 on compensating …
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Most previous studies of intergenerational transmission of human capital are restricted to two generations - parents and their children. In this study we use a Swedish data set which enables us link individual measures of lifetime earnings for three generations and data on educational...
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implementation across Sweden. We first show that the reform reduced crime rates for the generation directly affected by the reform …
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Most previous studies on intergenerational transmission of human capital are restricted to two generations - between the parent and the child generation. In this paper we investigate if there is an independent effect of the grandparent and the great grandparent generations in this process. We...
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labor market in Sweden since the late 1990s. We investigate whether or not there are potentials, with respect to health and …
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administrative data from Sweden. Our empirical strategy exploits exogenous varia-tion in parental incarceration from the random …
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