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What Happens when Municipalities Run Corporations? Empirical Evidence from 290 Swedish Municipalities
Across the globe, local governments have increasingly begun to rely on municipally owned corporations (MOCs) to provide public services, mounting to what scholars describe as a burgeoning corporatizat…
Working Paper
Publish date 9/3/2020
Risk-Sharing and Entrepreneurship
In this paper, we study the role of risk-sharing in entrepreneurship-driven innovation. Studying entrepreneurship and innovation entails modeling an occupational choice and an effort choice. Risk-shar…
Working Paper
Publish date 2/16/2022
What Happens when Municipalities Run Corporations? Empirical Evidence from 290 Swedish Municipalities
This paper addresses the competing views by studying Sweden, a country with a dramatic growth in the number of MOCs since the 1970s. We examine the association between the number of MOCs, citizen sati…
Journal Article
Publish date 5/21/2021
Så kan Österbotten attrahera fler internationella företag
En aktiv näringslivspolitik där tre punkter står i fokus är av stor betydelse för om Österbotten som region ska bli en av coronakrisens vinnare.
Op-Ed
Publish date 7/12/2021
Sweden's Successful Financin of a Strong Welfare System: A Model for Other Countries?
Mårten Blix, IFN, presents his and Henrik Jordahl's book Privatizing Welfare Services –Lessons from the Swedish Experiment at the Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF.
Event
Publish date 12/14/2021
Integrating Immigrants into the Nordic Labour Markets – The impact of ghe COVID 19-pandemic
Per Skedinger, IFN, is one of the authors of a new report commissioned by the Nordic Council of Ministers/ Nordregio.
News
Publish date 10/20/2021
Affiliated Researcher
The matching between workers and jobs explains productivity differentials across firms
Joacim Tåg, IFN, and Luca Coraggio, University of Naples Federico II, Marco Pagano, University of Naples Federico II, CEPR, and affiliated with IFN, and Annalisa Scognamiglio, University of Naples Fed…
Media coverage
Publiceringsdatum 5/9/2022
IFN Researcher
Lost Opportunities: Work during High School, Establishment Closures and the Impact on Career Prospects
Relying on Swedish linked employer-employee data over a 30-year period, I study the importance of work during high school for graduates’ school-to-work transition and labor market outcomes. I show tha…
Working Paper
Publish date 1/25/2021
Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Work and Productivity: The Role of Firm Heterogeneity
We propose a model with asymmetric firms where new technologies displace workers. We show that both leading (low-cost) firms and laggard (high-cost) firms increase productivity when automating but tha…
Working Paper
Publish date 2/11/2021
Ethnic Enclaves and Self-Employment among Middle Eastern Immigrants in Sweden: Ethnic Capital or Enclave Size?
We employ geocoded data to explore the effects of ethnic enclaves in Swedish cities on the propensity of Middle Eastern immigrants to transcend from having no employment to self-employment. We demonst…
Journal Article
Publish date 3/30/2021