For the U.S. and for Norway it has been established that men and women working in the same occupation for the same employer receive more or less the same pay. So-called within-job wage discrimination is hence not a driving force for the gender wage gap. We report a comparative and comprehensive...

Working Paper No. 18 is published as Teknik och industristruktur – 70-talets ekonomiska kris i historisk belysning (authors: Bo Carlsson, Erik Dahmén, Anders Grufman, Märtha Josefsson and Johan Örtengren). Stockholm: Industriens Utredningsinstitut and Ingenjörsvetenskapsakademien, 1979.

Working Paper No. 166 is published as "Market and Nonmarket Service Production in Swedish Households" (author: Anders Klevmarken) in Gunnar Eliasson (ed.), The Economics of Institutions and Markets, IUI Yearbook 1986–1987. Stockholm: The Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research, 1986.

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Working Paper No. 256 is published as "The Knowledge Based Information Economy" (authors: Gunnar Eliasson, Stefan Fölster, Thomas Lindberg, Tomas Pousette and Erol Taymaz). Stockholm: Industrial Institute for Economic and Social Research and Telecon, 1990.

Considerable advances, even breakthroughs, have been made during the last decades in our understanding of the relationship between knowledge and growth on one hand, and entrepreneurship and growth on the other. Similarly, more profound insights have also been gained as to how entrepreneurship,...

In the world of economists, Professor Constantin Ionete has been present in different aspects and he has imposed a vigorous, monumental authority and a soul structure of a rare sensibility. Being an exceptional personality, our professor has dedicated himself for over six decades to education,...

The editors of <i>Challenges</i> would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for assessing manuscripts in 2014:[...]

As the frequency and intensity of heatwaves are growing in Australia, strategies to combat heat are becoming more vital. Cities are exposed to urban heat islands (UHIs) due to excess urbanisation. In this study, a definition of urban heatwave (UHW) is conceptualised to investigate the combined...

The proliferation of non-scheduled generation from renewable electrical energy sources such concentrated solar power (CSP) presents a need for enabling scheduled generation by incorporating energy storage; either via directly coupled Thermal Energy Storage (TES) or Electrical Storage Systems...