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Intolerance Predicts Climate Skepticism
While there is almost unanimous consent among scientists that climate change is real and has detrimental consequences, there is a sizable number of people who are skeptical towards these propositions…
Journal Article
Publish date 1/4/2022
Graduate Student
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
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
Den kalla handen
Under 2020 lämnade avlidna i Sverige 1,4 miljarder kr i testamentsgåvor till olika välgörande ändamål (Giva Sverige 2021). Detta givande är anmärkningsvärt på flera sätt. Närmare 100 000 personer avle…
Popular Science
Publish date 12/8/2021
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
Affiliated 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