private sector employment. Our analysis suggests that the dramatic decline of the skill premium in Sweden is the result of an … ; private sector ; public sector ; Sweden ; United States …

This paper decomposes the rise in cross-sectional earnings inequality in Sweden between 1990 and 2002 into changes in … accounted for by changes in prices and residual dispersion. -- Earnings ; inequality ; Sweden ; United States …

Measured by per-capita publication measures, Sweden is an academic powerhouse. Hence, its inability to commercialize on … to exploit academic output in Sweden has been markedly less successful than the demand-driven market institutions in the …

tested by an in-depth examination of the experiences of Sweden and the US. Despite large levels of R&D spending and … comprehensive government support schemes, science-based entrepre-neurship has been far less important in Sweden compared to the US … Sweden in some areas is consistent with these changes. Our analysis suggests that a policy aimed at encouraging science …

Walter Korpi argues in a previous issue of Challenge (March/April 2000) that Swedish economists' claim that Sweden …'s growth performance has been inferior to that of other industrialized countries is at odds with the facts. Since Sweden has … wrong regarding Sweden's relative growth performance. Available data indicate that Sweden was lagging behind during the 1970 …

address this question by characterizing and evaluating the policy pursued in Sweden and the US, two countries that put a great … record, there is an impression of laggard rates of commercialization of academic research results in Sweden. Although there …