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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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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
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
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
The Evolution of Owner-Entrepreneurs’ Taxation: Five Tax Regimes over a 160-Year Period
The institutional literature suggests that long-term tax incentives are crucial for entrepreneurs, but studies on this topic are hampered by theoretical and empirical problems related to how to define…
Working Paper
Publish date 5/6/2022
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
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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
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