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2019-04-26
“What is meant by high-quality education?” That was the theme of a conference organized by the Swedish Association of Independent Schools. Gabriel Heller Sahlgren, London School of Economics and IFN, discussed the importance of understanding goal incongruence among the many quality-based goals in the education system. For example to increase student influence. Sahlgren presented research showing that student influence is positively correlated with perceived happiness among students. On the other hand, student influence is negatively correlated with economic growth on a national level.
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2019-04-25
The Government has appointed Gudmund Toijer to a one person committee to propose a modernization of the labor law. The appointment and design of the directives are based on the January agreement between the Social Democrats, the Center Party, the Liberals, and the Green Party. Per Skedinger, IFN, has been appointed an expert in the inquiry. His research has, among other things, focused on the employment protection legislation (Las) and its seniority rules. Other experts are Oscar Norström Skans, Uppsala University, and Anna Breman, chief economist Swedbank.
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2019-04-23
IFN has on several occasions invited representatives of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise member organizations to present the institute's broad field of research. "IFN's research and its importance in the public debate" (Magnus Henrekson), "Privatization of welfare services" (Henrik Jordahl) and "Is the Swedish business sector more entrepreneurial than the American?" (Lars Persson), were subjects for the presentations that the participants to listened to. Mårten Blix, IFN, also told about a book that he writes with Henrik Jordahl about the Swedish welfare sector.
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2019-04-18
Happy Easter to all the visitors to this website.
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2019-04-12
At the end of March, the industry-, labor market- and entrepreneurship-group (FAME) at IFN organized an internal workshop for IFN researchers and affiliates. During the workshop, research conducted with IFN's company data and Swedish registry data was presented and discussed. The purpose of the meeting was to review informally, in a small group and to discuss research ideas and ongoing research that are still at a very early stage, and thereby utilize the broad knowledge available at the institute and find possible new synergies. A total of 16 researchers presented and received feedback on their research and their research ideas.
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2019-04-05
On Friday, Özge Öner, IFN, presented the results of three years of research on the importance of retail for urban and rural areas. The title of the research project is "Shopping for change: The role of retail for urban and rural development in Sweden". The research has been financed by the Handelsrådet (Trade Council). "The industry's size corresponds to almost 20 percent of the total number of jobs and almost 11 percent of GDP", writes Özge Öner in a summary of the project. But despite this, retailing in most Swedish municipalities is decreasing.
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2019-04-04
"As a first big step to saving cohesion within the EU, national politicians must learn to give recognition to the EU for success and not, as the moment itself takes the credit and then blame all the hard-earned decisions on the EU," summarizes the debate on the EU book, Oxelheim summarizes the debate and the return of the nation-state (the 22nd year of Europaperspektiv) on Wednesday was discussed in Brussels. This took place at the Swedish Permanent Representation to the EU with the participation of, among others, trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström.
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2019-03-28
Research by Petra Persson, Stanford University and IFN, Maria Polyakova and Yiqun Chen, also active at Stanford, shows that people with access to informal health expertise through a family member who works as a doctor or nurse are 10 percent more likely to become 80 years or older. They are also significantly less likely to have chronic lifestyle-related diseases such as heart attacks, heart failure, and diabetes. The study has been published by the National Bureau of Economic Research and also as a working paper at IFN.