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The gender gap in workplace authority in Sweden 1968 - 2000: A family affair?
Bygren, Magnus; Gähler, Michael - 2007
We assess whether the gender gap in authority in Sweden has changed during the period 1968–2000, and investigate to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317967
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On the role of capital gains in Swedish income inequality
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2011
Realized capital gains are typically disregarded in the study of income inequality. We show that in the case of Sweden … surge in capital gains-driven inequality in Sweden since the 1980s. While there are no evident changes in terms of who earns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321442
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LINDA - Longitudinal INdividual DAta for Sweden
Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - 2000
This paper presents LINDA - a register-based longitudinal data set for Sweden. LINDA consists of a large panel of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321802
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Portfolio Allocation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from Swedish Household Data
Andersson, Björn - 2001
This paper provides empirical evidence on life-cycle patterns in the asset allocation of Swedish households. Data on household portfolio allocation are collected from the HINK surveys for the period 1982-1992, and portfolio shares of different asset categories are regressed on age, period, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321812
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Privatization and Labor Force Restructuring Around the World
Chong, Alberto; Lopez-de-Silanes, Florencio - 2003
Critics of privatization argue that poor labor force restructuring is a key concern and that governments should establish better retrenchment programs. Using new data from a random sample of 400 companies in the world, we test competing theories about the wisdom of retrenchment programs and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327086
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Human capital potential of India's future workforce
Mehdi, Ali; Chaudhry, Divya - 2015
Indian policymakers - like most of their counterparts across the developing and developed world - have been concerned with the employability of their working-age populations in particular, for obvious economic and sociopolitical reasons. However, such concern has been largely missing as far as...
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Waiting for jobs
Kapoor, Radhicka - 2017
Employment data in India is far from adequate if policy responses have to be more effective and timely. Most employment surveys suffer from drawbacks such as limited data coverage, infrequent data collection and long time lags. To address these gaps and revamp the existing employment data...
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Voter turnout and the size of government
Aggeborn, Linuz - 2013
Finnish municipal data are used and a constitutional change in Sweden in 1970 is applied as an instrument for voter turnout in … local elections. In 1970, Sweden moved from having separate election days for different levels of government, among other … constitutional reform increased voter turnout in local elections in Sweden. The overall conclusion of this paper is that higher voter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396716
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Towards advanced Intellectual property management - Events and stages during the development. Evidence from the biotech sector
Tietze, Frank; Granstrand, Ove; Herstatt, Cornelius - 2006
During recent years the management of Intellectual Property (IP) underwent major changes. IP management systems became increasingly complex nowadays actively handling an integrated mix of intellectual assets rather than just administrating patents or trademarks as single, independently treated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308059
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Ethnic enclaves, self-employment and the economic performance of refugees
Andersson, Henrik - 2018
In this paper I estimate the causal effect of ethnic enclaves on the probability of self-employment. To account for neighborhood selection I make use of a refugee dispersal program. Results indicate that larger ethnic enclaves, measured as the share of self-employed coethnics in the municipality...
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