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Economic Freedom and Growth:Decomposing the Effects
(2001)
Most studies of the relation between economic freedom and growth of GDP have found a positive relation. One problem in this area is the choice of economic freedom measure. A single measure does notreflect the complex ...
Economic Inequality and HIV in Malawi
(2009-12-28)
Competence Systems
(2002)
Today, more and more organizations rely upon the competencies of their staffs. This increasing reliance on competence has triggered many organizations to implement competence systems in order to support staff allocation ...
Early warnings for turns in business cycles and finance
(University of Gothenburg, 2003-06-01)
In many areas, it is important to detect turning points in time series early and without faults. Turns in business cycles and financial time series are discussed here.
A variety of approaches for analyzing the turns in ...
"You cannot blame anyone else". Being in charge of the future
(2004)
The pension system in Sweden underwent a dramatic change during the 1990s. Replacing the
traditional welfare model of a more or less collective solution for all Swedes, an individual-focused
pension model was launched ...
The Thin End of the Wedge. Foreign Women Professors as Double Strangers in Academia
(2005)
The impetus for this study was an observation that many of the women who obtained the first chairs at European universities were foreigners. Our initial attempt to provide a statistical picture proved impossible, because ...
A comparison of conditioned versus unconditioned forecasts of the V AR(l) process
(University of Gothenburg, 2003-05-01)
The properties of a forecast usually depend upon whether the forecast is conditioned on the final period observation or not. In the case of unconditioned forecasts it is well known that the point predictions are unbiased. ...
Essays on Unemployment Duration and Programme Evaluation
(2006)
The process of labour market transformation in the 1990s attracted a lot of attention from economists and policy makers. Unprecedented changes, like rapid reforms in Central and Eastern Europe and later the expansion of ...
Endogenous Institutional Change After Independence
(2005)
A key event in economic history was the independence of nearly ninety former colonies after World War II. On the basis of qualitative and quantitative evidence, we argue that independence often constituted an institutional ...