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Collectively bargained wages and female earnings : evidence from Swedish local governments
Bustos, Emil - 2024
This paper studies how a special wage increase for assistant nurses in Sweden affected income and employment. Workers …
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From Wall Street to work floor : how private equity buyouts affect workers
Olsson, Martin; Tåg, Joacim - 2023
Private equity buyouts have sparked debates among labor unions and worker representatives on how they affect workers. This chapter provides an overview of academic evidence on how private equity buyouts affect workers. We review the theoretical reasons why employees could be affected and then...
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Independent-school competition and Sweden's performance in TIMSS
Heller-Sahlgren, Gabriel - 2023
This paper analyses the effects of independent-school competition on Sweden's performance in TIMSS, an international … after 2003 and is driven by for-profit schools. The results suggest that competition both slowed down Sweden's performance … estimates indicates that Sweden's average score in TIMSS 2019 would have been 20 points, or 0.24 standard deviations, lower …
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Labor market effects of a youth summer employment program in Sweden
Knutsson, Daniel; Tyrefors, Björn - 2024
, Sweden, where public sector job offers were as good as randomly assigned. In contrast to previous studies evaluating SYEP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014501062
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The socioeconomics of wind power expansion : evidence from Sweden
Lundin, Erik; Platten, Jenny von - 2024
We document the socioeconomics of wind power expansion in Sweden using two metrics. First, we compute the difference in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015135289
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Subsidizing away exports? : a note on R&D-policy towards multinational firms
Norbäck, Pehr-Johan - 2010
In this paper, I investigate whether instead of strengthening home-based production, government R&D-subsidies can induce R&D-intensive firms to locate production abroad. Investigating firm-level data on Swedish MNEs, however, I find no evidence of such relocation. R&D subsidies rather tend to en...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969180
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The effect of tax treaties on multinational firms : new evidence from microdata
Davies, Ronald B.; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Tekin-Koru, Ayça - 2010
This paper uses affiliate level data from Swedish multinationals to examine the impact of tax treaties on both overall affiliate sales and the composition of those sales. In line with previous results, we find little evidence for an effect of treaties on the level of total sales. We do, however,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969188
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Planned treatment and outcomes in residential youth care : evidence from Sweden
Lindqvist, Erik - 2010
A recurring theme in evaluations of Swedish residential youth care is that treatment is often unplanned. In this paper, I show that planned treatment is strongly positively associated with treatment outcomes. In the short term, teenagers with planned treatment are less likely to experience a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969230
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Fiscal illusion and fiscal obfuscation : an empirical study of tax perception in Sweden
Sanandaji, Tino; Wallace, Björn - 2010
public in Sweden. Respondents in a nation-wide and representative survey systematically underestimate the share of an … the case with the payroll taxes in Sweden, we call it fiscal obfuscation. -- Fiscal illusion ; fiscal obfuscation ; tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969244
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Graded children : evidence of longrun consequences of school grades from a nationwide reform
Sjögren, Anna - 2010
Swedish elementary school children stopped receiving written end of year report cards following a grading reform in 1982. Gradual implementation of the reform creates an opportunity to investigate the effects of being graded on adult educational attainments and earnings for children in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003973482