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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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Sweden : a minimum wage model in need of modification?

Skedinger, Per (contributor) - 2008

Swedish minimum wages are not regulated by law, but subject to bargaining between employers and trade unions and form part of collective agreements. This paper provides an overview of the Swedish minimum wage system, its characteristics and effects on employment and wages, and also discusses the...

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Partial retirement and labor supply : evidence from Swedish collective bargaining agreements

Bustos, Emil - 2024

Sweden's manufacturing sector in 2013. Merging collective bargaining data with administrative records, I employ a difference …

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Using markets to measure pre-war threat assessments : the Nordic Countries facing World War II

Waldenström, Daniel (contributor); … - 2006

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Does gender diversity promote non-conformity?

Amini, Makan; Ekström, Mathias; Ellingsen, Tore; … - 2015 - Final version: 8 October 2015

Failure to express minority views may distort the behavior of company boards, committees, juries, and other decision-making bodies. Devising a new experimental procedure to measure such conformity in a judgment task, we compare the degree of conformity in groups with varying gender composition....

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Long run trends in the distribution of income and wealth

Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2014

This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses suggested explanations for the observed patterns. We try to answer questions such as: What do we know, and how do we know, about the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are...

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Pattern bargaining as a means to coordinate wages in the nordic countries

Calmfors, Lars - 2025

The various form of pattern bargaining with manufacturing, as representative of the tradables sector, deciding the norm for wage increases in the Nordic countries are reviewed. This form of bargaining has been consistent with strong international competitiveness and has widespread support among...

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The effect of centrally bargained wages on firm growth

Bustos, Emil - 2023

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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Dead battery? : wind power, the spot market, and hydro power interaction in the nordic electricity market

Mauritzen, Johannes - 2012

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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The silver lining of price spikes : how electricity price spikes can help overcome the energy efficiency gap

Mauritzen, Johannes - 2014

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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