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Ljungqvist, Lars; Sargent, Thomas J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

Post World War II European welfare states experienced several decades of relatively low unemployment, followed by a … plague of persistently high unemployment since the 1980s. We impute the higher unemployment to welfare states' diminished … search model where workers accumulate skills on the job and lose skills during unemployment. …

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Effects of Increasing Minimum Wages on Employment and Hours: Evidence from Sweden’s Retail Sector

Skedinger, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

This paper examines the effects of collectively agreed increases in real minimum wages on employment transitions and hours among manual workers in the Swedish retail sector over the period 2001–05. The findings indicate that increases in real minimum wages are associated with more separations,...

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Foreign Ownership and Employment Growth in Indonesian Manufacturing

Sjöholm, Fredrik; Lipsey, Robert E.; Sun, Jing - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to accomplish this goal may be to encourage the entrance of foreign firms. They are typically relatively large, with high productivity and good access to foreign markets, and might...

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A Continuous Theory of Income Insurance

Lindbeck, Assar; Persson, Mats - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

In this paper we treat an individual’s health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on income insurance, where it is regularly treated as a binary variable. This is not a minor technical matter; in fact, a continuous treatment of an individual’s health sheds new...

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A Model of Income Insurance and Social Norms

Lindbeck, Assar; Persson, Mats - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006

A large literature on ex ante moral hazard in income insurance emphasizes that the individual can affect the probability of an income loss by choice of lifestyle and hence, the degree of risk-taking. The much smaller literature on moral hazard ex post mainly analyzes how a “moral hazard...

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Technology Development and Job Creation in China

Lundin, Nannan; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Ping, He; Qian, Jinchang - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

This paper examines how Science and Technology (S&T) contribute to job creation in the Chinese manufacturing sector. The ambition of transforming China into an innovation-oriented nation and the emphasis on indigenous innovation capacity building have placed Science and Technology (S&T) high on...

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A Continuous Model of Income Insurance

Lindbeck, Assar; Persson, Mats - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

We develop a simple yet realistic model of income insurance, where the individual’s ability and willingness to work is treated as a continuous variable. In this framework, income insurance not only provides income smoothing, it also relieves the individual from particularly burdensome work. As...

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How Wage Compression Affects Job Turnover

Heyman, Fredrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

I use Swedish establishment-level panel data to test Bertola and Rogerson’s (1997) hypothesis of a positive relation between the degree of wage compression and job reallocation. Results indicate that the effect of wage compression on job turnover is positive and significant in the...

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FDI and Job Creation in China

Karlsson, Sune; Lundin, Nannan; Sjöholm, Fredrik; He, Ping - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

This paper examines the effect of FDI on job creation in the Chinese manufacturing sector. As one of the world’s largest recipients of FDI, China has arguably benefited from foreign multinational enterprises in various respects. However, one of the main challenges for China, and other...

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Institutional Effects on the Evolution of the Size Distribution of Firms

Henrekson, Magnus; Johansson, Dan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

most previous studies. This gives more scope for investigating the impact of institutions. Moreover, we use a unique data … are either unwilling or unable to cross. The analysis of the institutions and rules of the game determining the …

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