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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
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
The Sharing Economy: Definition, Measurement and its Relationship to Capitalism
For the past decade, the sharing economy has not only grown but also expanded to cover a wide variety of different activities across the globe. Despite a lot of research, there is still no agreement o…
Working Paper
Publish date 1/25/2021
The Sharing Economy: Definition, Measurement and its Relationship to Capitalism
For the past decade, the sharing economy has not only grown but also expanded to cover a wide variety of different activities across the globe. Despite a lot of research, there is still no agreement o…
Journal Article
Publish date 4/8/2021
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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
Fairness, Flexibility and the Far Right: Understanding the Relationship between Populism, Social Spending and Labor Markets
The large increase in economic inequality and the dismantling of the welfare state in Western democracies has been connected to the rise of populist parties. If populist voting is explained by fear an…
Working Paper
Publish date 9/1/2021
Foreign Ownership and Transferring of Gender Norms
In this paper, we study foreign ownership as a vehicle for transferring gender norms across international borders. Specifically, we analyze how the wage differential between men and women in Swedish f…
Working Paper
Publish date 6/29/2022
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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
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
Daniel Waldenström participates in Tylösand Summit
Daniel Waldenström, IFN, is one of the participants in this year's SNS Tylösand Summit: Economic policy in the covid world and beyond.
News
Publish date 8/20/2021
Daniel Waldenström interviewed on inequality
IFN researcher Daniel Waldenström is interviewed in French Polytechnique Insights on the much-debated topic of economic inequality.
News
Publish date 2/15/2022