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Lars Calmfors

Lars Calmfors
Professor
IFN Researcher

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

Customer and Worker Discrimination Against Gay and Lesbian Business Owners: A Web-Based Experiment among Students in Sweden
We examined customer and worker discrimination against gay and lesbian business owners using a web-based experiment conducted at a Swedish university campus. Participants (N = 1,406) were presented wi…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/8/2022

JAQ of All Trades: Job Mismatch, Firm Productivity and Managerial Quality
Does the matching between workers and jobs help explain productivity differentials across firms? To address this question we develop a job-worker allocation quality measure (JAQ) by combining employer…
Working Paper
Publish date 4/1/2022
Joakim Jansson

Joakim Jansson
Ph.D.
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

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Publiceringsdatum 3/31/2021

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Publiceringsdatum 6/14/2021
Mats Hammarstedt

Mats Hammarstedt
Affiliated Researcher
Björn Tyrefors

Björn Tyrefors
Associate Professor
IFN Researcher
Joacim Tåg

Joacim Tåg
Associate Professor, Program Director
IFN Researcher
Malin Gardberg

Malin Gardberg
Ph.D.
IFN Researcher
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Publiceringsdatum 2/18/2021

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Publiceringsdatum 4/28/2022

Media coverage
Publiceringsdatum 4/28/2022

Trust Us to Repay: Social Trust, Long-Term Interest Rates, and Sovereign Credit Ratings
This paper asks whether the sensitivity of market long-term interest rates and credit ratings is associated with cross-country differences in informal institutions, measured by social trust. We note a…
Journal Article
Publish date 8/13/2021

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

Contracting with Endogenously Incomplete Commitment: Escape Clauses
We study mechanism design under endogenously incomplete commitment as it arises in contracting with escape clauses. An escape clause permits the agent to end a contractual relationship under specified…
Working Paper
Publish date 5/28/2021
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