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Childcare Costs and the Demand for Children – Evidence from a Nationwide Reform

Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - 2011

causal effect of childcare costs on fertility in a context in which childcare enrollment is almost universal, user fees are …

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Competition, Takeovers and Gender Discrimination

Heyman, Fredrik; Svaleryd, Helena; Vlachos, Jonas - 2011

Theories of taste-based discrimination predict that competitive pressures will drive discriminatory behavior out of the market. Using detailed matched employer-employee data, we analyze how firm takeovers and product market competition are related to the gender composition of the firm's...

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Childcare Costs and the Demand for Children: Evidence from a Nationwide Reform

Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - 2009

We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child … care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous … costs on fertility in a context in which child care enrolment is almost universal and the labor force participation of …

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Why Are There So Few Female Top Executives in Egalitarian Welfare States?

Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - 2009

We identify pertinent institutions governing the structure of payoffs with regard to female career progression. Drawing on recent insights in behavioral economics, we hypothesize that interactions between psychological mechanisms and the institutional setup may be important determinants of...

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When dad can stay home: Fathers' workplace flexibility and maternal health

Persson, Petra; Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2019

While workplace flexibility is perceived to be a key determinant of maternal labor supply, less is known about fathers' demand for flexibility or about intra-household spillover effects of flexibility initiatives. This paper examines these issues in the context of a critical period in family...

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Fertile Soil for Intrapreneurship : Impartial Institutions and Human Capital

Ljunge, Martin; Stenkula, Mikael - 2021

Intrapreneurs, entrepreneurial employees, constitute an important force behind innovations in the economy. Yet, what factors that promote intrapreneurship at the country level are an underdeveloped research area. This paper provides a seminal contribution regarding the methodological approach...

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Entrepreneurship, Wage Employment and Control in an Occupational Choice Framework

Douhan, Robin; van Praag, Mirjam - 2009

We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...

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Offshoring, Total Factor Productivity and Skill-Biased Technological Change

Akhmetova, Zhanar - 2015

The paper answers two questions simultaneously. What is the effect of offshoring on firms' total factor productivity? What is the effect of offshoring on skill-biased technological change? We estimate a model of firm production that allows for the effect of offshoring on both total factor...

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Explaining Cross-Country Differences in Labor Market Gaps between Immigrants and Natives in the OECD

Bergh, Andreas - 2014

In most OECD-countries, immigrants have lower employment and higher unemployment than natives. This paper compares nine potential explanations of these gaps. Results are obtained for 21-28 countries using bivariate correlations, OLS-regressions and Bayesian model averaging over all 512...

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A Cross-Country Comparison of Dynamics in the Large Firm Wage Premium

Colonnelli, Emanuele - 2019

examine matched employer-employee micro-data from Brazil, Germany, Sweden, and the UK, and find that the large firm premium …

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