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Vad finns det för motiv att vara med i facket?
Den fackliga organisationsgraden har haft en fallande trend i Sverige liksom i de flesta andra länder. Vi har med hjälp av en enkät undersökt motiven för att vara fackligt ansluten. Trygghetsskäl, sär…
Article in Swedish
Publish date 6/2/2021
Lägstalöner och sysselsättning i den nya arbetsmarknadsforskningen
En ny forskningsöversikt visar att lägstalönernas negativa inverkan på sysselsättningen har överdrivits. Dessutom är de svenska lägstalönerna inte längre anmärkningsvärt höga. Diskussionen om lägstalö…
Report
Publish date 6/20/2022
Enkla jobb bidrar till självförsörjning
Den måttliga anpassning nedåt av relativlönerna som vi sett i några av de enkla jobben har inte varit tillräcklig, skriver Per Skedinger, som menar att fler enkla jobb i Sverige skulle underlätta etab…
Op-Ed
Publish date 6/21/2022
Ballooning Bureaucracy: Tracking the Growth of High-Skilled Administration within Swedish Higher Education
Organizations, both non-profit and for-profit, needs to allocate labor for both production as well as internal administration. If this allocation is skewed towards internal administration, organizatio…
Working Paper
Publish date 8/19/2021
Test Scores and Economic Growth: Update and Extension
Research indicates that education quality – measured by test scores in international student surveys – predicts economic growth. In this paper, we extend previous findings up to 2016 and analyse test…
Working Paper
Publish date 10/1/2021
Education and Health: Long-Run Effects of Peers, Tracking and Years
We investigate two parallel school reforms in Sweden to assess the long-run health effects of education. One reform only increased years of schooling, while the other increased years of schooling but…
Journal Article
Publish date 10/12/2021
Political Institutions and Academic Freedom: Evidence from Across the World
There is scant systematic empirical evidence on what explains variation in academic freedom. Making use of a new indicator and panel data covering 64 countries 1960–2017, we investigate how de facto a…
Journal Article
Publish date 1/17/2022
The View of Knowledge: An Institutional Theory of Differences in Educational Quality
This essay argues that the most crucial institution of any school system is its view of knowledge—from which virtually all other aspects of a school are derived: the content of its curricula, its peda…
Working Paper
Publish date 6/22/2022
Ideological Spillovers Across the Atlantic? Evidence from Trump’s Presidential Election
Ideological spillovers refer to the modification of an individual’s core beliefs after learning about other people's beliefs. We study one specific international ideological spillover, namely, the ef…
Working Paper
Publish date 1/19/2022
Politisk kartellbildning som förklaring till Sverigedemokraternas framgång
Sverigedemokraterna har, i likhet med andra populistiska partier i Europa, vuxit kraftigt i de senaste valen. En trolig förklaring till denna uppgång kan finnas i att Sverigedemokraterna har erbjudit…
Book Chapter
Publish date 1/31/2022
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
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Political Failure: A Missing Piece in Innovation Policy Analysis
Within the field of innovation studies, researchers have identified systematic failures that hamper investment in R&D, innovation, and growth. Accordingly, researchers in this field often seek to…
Journal Article
Publish date 4/21/2022
Ideological Spillovers Across the Atlantic? Evidence from Trump’s Presidential Election
Ideological spillovers refer to the modification of an individual’s core beliefs after learning about other people's beliefs. We study one specific international ideological spillover, namely, the ef…
Journal Article
Publish date 4/22/2022
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