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Ethnic Background and the Value of Self-Employment Experience: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
In this paper, we use a randomized field experiment in Sweden to investigate how self-employment experience is valued in the labor market. We find that self-employment experience negatively impacts th…
Journal Article
Publish date 11/15/2021
IFN Researcher
What Prevents Women from Reaching the Top?
We use rich data on all business, economics, and engineering graduates in Sweden to study the lack of women among CEOs. A comprehensive battery of graduates’ characteristics explains 40% of the gender…
Working Paper
Publish date 2/18/2016
What Prevents Women from Reaching the Top?
We use rich data on all business, economics, and engineering graduates in Sweden to study the lack of women among CEOs. A comprehensive battery of graduates’ characteristics explains 40% of the gender…
Journal Article
Publish date 2/15/2022
IFN Researcher
International Trade and Labor Market Integration of Immigrants
We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign…
Journal Article
Publish date 12/14/2021
IFN Researcher
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Fredrik Sjöholm new board member of EIJS
Fredrik Sjöholm, CEO of IFN, has been elected to be a member of the board of the European Institute of Japanese Studies.
News
Publish date 11/15/2021
IFN Researcher
Economic Freedom and Antisemitism
We examine how variation in antisemitism across countries can be explained by economic freedom. We propose two mechanisms. First, the more economic freedom, the greater the scope of market activities.…
Journal Article
Publish date 3/4/2021
Are People Fussy About Who They Work With? An Experimental Test of Becker’s Coworker Discrimination Hypothesis
We used an experiment to investigate whether people’s decisions over employment opportunities are affected by the ethnicity and sex of their potential future coworkers. University students (N = 1,406)…
Journal Article
Publish date 12/22/2021
Gender and Climate Action
It is well-known that men and women differ in their views regarding the severity of climate change, but do they also differ in their support for climate policy and in undertaking climate action in the…
Working Paper
Publish date 4/21/2020
Gender and Climate Action
It is well-known that men and women differ in their views regarding the severity of climate change, but do they also differ in their support for climate policy and in undertaking climate action in the…
Journal Article
Publish date 2/18/2022
Industrial Policy and Foreign Direct Investment
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) can benefit host countries by facilitating access to sophisticated technologies, good management and global value chains. However, multinational firms have many alterna…
Working Paper
Publish date 9/1/2021