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Despite the central role played by human capital in entrepreneurship, little is known about how employees in entrepreneurial firms are compensated and incentivized. We address this gap in the literature by studying 18,935 non-CEO compensation contracts across 1,809 privately-held venture-backed...
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collective bargaining agreements in Sweden and study the impact of the nationwide bargaining that took place in 2004. I make a …
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Studies have shown that many consumers and businesses fail to invest in energy efficiency improvements despite seemingly ample financial incentives to do so – the so-called energy efficiency gap or paradox. Attempts to explain this gap often focus on searching costs, information frictions and...
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-ups were 8-11 percent. We find some support for the hypothesis that the division of Sweden into price areas in 2011 increased …
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power are installed. In this paper I use simple distributed lag models with data from Denmark and Norway. I find that … increased wind power in Denmark causes increased marginal exports to Norway and that this effect is larger during periods of net … southern Norway in the short run. Finally, I estimate that as much as 40 percent of wind power produced in Denmark is stored in …
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Minimum wages in Sweden are collectively agreed and differ by industry. Within agreements, the rates are also highly … differentiated. Minimum wages are higher in Sweden than in any of the countries with statutory rates considered in this study. This … reported results for Sweden do no support the suggestion that adverse employment effects are modest in systems with …
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Nordic historians have asserted for a long time that in the Nordic countries only few people, if any, perceived increased threats of war prior to the World War II outbreak. This would explain, and possibly excuse, why their governments did not mobilize their armies until it was too late. This...
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This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903-2004. We find that …. When included, Sweden's experience resembles that in the U.S. and the U.K. with sharp increases in top incomes. Excluding … capital gains, Sweden looks more like the continental European countries where top income shares have remained relatively …
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We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization …
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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 …
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