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Wage Dispersion and Productive Efficiency: Evidence For Sweden
(2000)The effects of wage dispersion on productive efficiency is a topic rich in theoretical conjecture, a common object of Scandinavian polemical debate and at the same time an issue almost barren of systematic econometric ... -
Wage Effects of Labor Migration with International Capital Mobility
(2010-08)Wage effects of immigration are investigated in a setting with international capital mobility, which eliminates two-thirds of the native wage-effects of immigration. Without international capital mobility, overall gains ... -
Wages and Immigrant Occupational Composition in Sweden
(2010-03-17)This paper examines the relationship between immigrant occupational composition and wages in Sweden. Effects of changes in proportion of immigrant workers in different occupations on the wage levels of both natives and ... -
The Wealth Paradox Revisited: Credit Market Imperfections and Child Labor
(2008-10-24)We revisit the model of child labor in a peasant household presented in Bhalotra and Heady (2003), and demonstrate that the effect of credit market imperfections on child labor differs between households that save and ... -
Welfare Implications of Peer Punishment in Unequal Societies
(2006)We show that peer sanctioning increases cooperation in public goods experiments more in unequally endowed groups than in equally endowed groups. Punishment results in a redistribution of wealth from high to low endowment ... -
What contributes to life satisfaction in transitional Romania?
(2003)This paper analyzes life satisfaction in Romania in 2001, 12 years after the collapse of communism and the beginning of the transition into a market economy. Using a survey of 1770 individuals, we find that our results ... -
What do friends and media tell us? How different information channels affect women’s risk perceptions of age-related female infertility
(2007-03-16)Based on a survey given to a random sample of Swedish 20-40 year old females, this paper investigates through which channels women receive information about the general risk levels of age-related female infertility and ... -
What do respondents bring into contingent valuation? A comparison of monetary and labour payment vehicles
(2011-06)In the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM), both the goods being valued and the payment vehicles used to value them are mostly hypothetical. However, although numerous studies have examined the impact of experience with the ... -
What explains attitudes toward prostitution?
(2009-04-03)Using a larger and more representative sample than previous studies, we assess people’s attitudes toward prostitution in Norway and Sweden. Compared to previous statistical analyses in this field, the present study is ... -
What explains attitudes towards tax levels? A multi-tax comparison
(2006)We analyse Swedes’ opinions about the level of taxation for eleven different taxes to see what taxes people are most reluctant to and why. The most unpopular tax is the real estate tax, while the corporate tax is the least ... -
What Explains the International Location of Industry? -The Case of Clothing
(2009-12-21)The clothing sector has been a driver of diversification and growth for countries that have graduated into middle income. Using a partial adjustment panel data model for 61 countries 1975-2000, we investigate the global ... -
What Explains the International Location of the Clothing Industry?
(2008-02-21)The clothing sector has been a driver of diversification and growth for countries that have graduated into middle income. Using a partial adjustment panel data model, this study tries to explain the international location ... -
When Samuelson met Veblen abroad: National and global public good provision when social comparisons matter
(2012-09)This paper derives Pareto efficient policy rules for the provision of national as well as global public goods in a two-country world, where each individual cares about relative consumption within as well as between countries. ... -
Which type of policy instrument do citizens and experts prefer? A choice experiment on Swedish marine and water policy
(University of Gothenburg, 2018-11)In the choice between alternative environmental policy instruments, economists tend to favor policies capable of attaining cost-efficiency, but other considerations may be important to stakeholders. We perform a choice ... -
Who Are the Trustworthy, We Think?
(2006)In a representative Swedish sample people were asked to judge the relative extent that different groups of people are considered trustworthy in several dimensions, including their political views and reading habits. A ... -
Who is willing to stay sick for the collective? – Individual characteristics, experience, and trust
(2019-05)This paper deals with the collective action dilemma of antibiotic resistance. Despite the collective threat posed by antibiotic resistance, there are limited incentives for individuals to consider the contribution of their ... -
Who visits the museums? A comparison between stated preferences and observed effects of entrance fees
(2008-04-09)This study investigates whether the introduction of an entrance fee affects visitor composition at a state funded museum in Sweden. While entrance to the museum was still free, we conducted a survey to collect information ... -
Why (field) experiments on unethical behavior are important: Comparing stated and revealed behavior
(2016-06)Understanding unethical behavior is essential to many phenomena in the real world. We carry out a field experiment in a unique setting that varies the levels of reciprocity and guilt in an ethical decision. A survey more ... -
Why Are Market Economies Politically Stable? A Theory of Capitalist Cohesion
(2007-12-14)The present paper documents that political stability is positively associated with the extent of domestic trade. In explaining this reg- ularity, we provide a model where political cohesion is linked to the emergence ...