Books and Chapters in Books
Dumbing Down – The Crisis of Quality and Equity in a Once-Great School System—and How to Reverse the Trend
This open access book examines the challenges and issues caused by a move to a marketized education system in Sweden. Observing the introduction of the school voucher system and a postmodern social co…
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Integrating Immigrants into the Nordic Labour Markets. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Wage Policies and the Integration of Immigrants Revisited
This chapter reflects on the role of wage policies in facilitating the labour market integration of immigrants. The overall analysis in this chapter suggests that minimum wage cuts, combined with othe…
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The European Union and the Technology Shift
Money for Nothin’: Digitalization and Fluid Tax Bases
This chapter analyses in what way digitalisation changes the conditions for taxation. In the 2020s, firms create value less using machines and more using intangibles, such as copyrights, R&D and s…
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Regional Science Perspectives on Tourism and Hospitality
Microgeography of Restaurants: Sub-City Analysis of Restaurant Location and Colocation Using Swedish Geo-Coded Data
In this chapter, we offer an exploatory empirical analysis that captures the general location and colocation patterns for restaurants using Swedish geo-coded data for the year 2015, which allows us to…
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Regional Science Perspectives on Tourism and Hospitality
Introduction – Worlds Collide: Regional Science and Tourism Research
With this book, we aim at contributing to the existing efforts to bridge these two extensively realated strands of literature where we compiled several individual contributions that present how touris…
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Regional Science Perspectives on Tourism and Hospitality
This book approaches the tourism and hospitality industry from a regional science perspective. By analyzing the spatial context of tourist travels, the hospitality sector, and the regional impacts of…
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Privatizing Welfare Services
Lessons from the Swedish experiment
Focusing on health care, education, and elderly care, Privatizing Welfare Services draws on extensive research on the consequences of introducing market-based mechanisms to deliver welfare services.
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Service Operations Management. A Strategic Perspective
This engaging and accessible textbook explores the challenges and complexities of managing operations in a service industry setting. Comprehensive in scope, this textbook considers key concepts from s…
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Educational Performance in Swedish Shools is Plummeting – What Are the Facts?
This report contains an analysis of all the relevant studies that measure educational performance in Swedish schools until September 2016. Its main focus is a comparison of Swedish pupils’ attainment…
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Institutional Reform for Innovation and Entrepreneurship – An Agenda for Europe
The authors of this book advise the economies of the European Union to become more entrepreneurial in promoting innovation and economic growth. The authors propose a reform strategy with respect to se…
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