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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
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
Innovative Entrepreneurship as a Collaborative Effort: An Institutional Framework
We demonstrate how successful entrepreneurship depends on a collaborative innovation bloc (CIB), a system of innovation that evolves spontaneously and within which activity takes place through time. A…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/8/2021
Fertile Soil for Intrapreneurship: Impartial Institutions and Human Capital
Intrapreneurs, entrepreneurial employees, constitute an important force behind innovations in the economy. Yet, what factors that promote intrapreneurship at the country level are an underdeveloped re…
Journal Article
Publish date 5/17/2021
Making a Market: Infrastructure, Integration and the Rise of Innovation
We exploit exogenous variation arising from the historical rollout of the Swedish railroad network across municipalities to identify the impacts of improved transport infrastructure on innovative acti…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/9/2021
Improved Framework Conditions for a More Entrepreneurial, Innovative and Resilient EU
In the wake of the Covid-19 crisis, the European Union must regain lost ground and create more favorable conditions for inclusive and sustainable economic growth. The best way to achieve this goal is…
Working Paper
Publish date 3/25/2021
Sverige behöver en blockkedjestrategi
Blockkedjetekniken är betydligt mer än bara spekulation i kryptovalutor. Sverige behöver en heltäckande strategi för att hänga med i tävlingen om framtidens internet, skriver Joacim Tåg.
Op-Ed
Publish date 1/16/2022
Academic Freedom, Institutions, and Productivity
The issue of what explains differences in the wealth of nations is one of the most classic in economics. We propose de facto academic freedom as an explanatory variable. The main idea is that such fre…
Journal Article
Publish date 4/6/2022
Academic Freedom, Institutions and Productivity
The issue of what explains differences in the wealth of nations is one of the most classic in economics. We propose de facto academic freedom as an explanatory variable. The main idea is that such fre…
Working Paper
Publish date 9/21/2021
Collaborative Innovation Blocs and Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy: An Ecosystem Perspective
Among contemporary economists, Mariana Mazzucato stands out for her emphasis on the importance of innovation to solving pressing challenges and achieve a greater quality of life. However, the type of…
Book Chapter
Publish date 4/25/2022
Mass Migration and Technological Change
This paper studies the effect of emigration on technological change in sending lo- cations after one of the largest migration events in human history, the mass migration from Europe to the United Stat…
Journal Article
Publish date 1/12/2022
Innovation Begets Innovation and Concentration: The Case of Upstream Oil & Gas in the North Sea
We investigate the effect of technology adoption on competition by leveraging aunique dataset on production, costs, and asset characteristics for North Sea upstream oil & gas companies. Relying on…
Working Paper
Publish date 6/8/2022
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
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
Lifelong Learning and Employment Outcomes: Evidence from Sweden
We study the relationship between adult education and training (AET) and employment in Sweden. Exploiting rich data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies, and using…
Journal Article
Publish date 4/20/2022