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people working in various creative occupations-is estimated to contribute nearly 8% of the country's employment, much higher …
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Swedish labor market has adopted well to technological change, as it exhibits stable employment rates and steady wage growth …
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What national policies are most efficient in promoting the commercialization of university-generated knowledge? We address this question by characterizing and evaluating the policy pursued in Sweden and the US, two countries that put a great deal of resources into university R&D, but follow very...
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The recent 'scientification' of commercial technology has brought the interface between universities and industry into sharp focus. In particular, academic entrepreneurship, i.e., the variety of ways in which academics take direct part in the commercialization of research, is widely discussed....
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Using employer-employee data covering the whole Swedish economy over a uniquely long time period from 1986 to 2002, we examine how job flows and worker flows have been distributed both on an aggregate level and across educational levels. We find that job and worker flows vary by educational...
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depicted and its effects on formal and informal labour markets. The most important challenges for employment policy as well as …
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East Germany underwent rapid transition from a socialist to a market economy since the fall of the Berlin Wall. We are interested in whether women are better off or worse off relative to men as a result of this transition. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel Data 1990-1997 to study wage...
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I analyze how general practitioners (GPs) indirectly affect their patients' employment outcomes by deciding on the … only certified because a worker's GP has a high propensity to certify sick leaves - decreases employment probabilities …: Whenever medically justifiable, it may be beneficial to certify shorter sick leaves in order to protect employment status of …
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The challenge of employment in the Indian economy, especially after it growth acceleration since the mid-1980s, relates … to its quality rather than its quantity. While employment growth has kept pace with the labour force over the long run …, what has grown is informal employment. The coexistence of rapid capital accumulation, robust output growth and lack of …
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