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1. 6. Lönande lärande - teknologisk förändring, yrkesskicklighet och lön i svensk verkstadsindustri omrking 1900

   Författare :Fay Lundh Nilsson; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; second industrial revolution; engineering industry; recruitment; internal labour markets; human capital; experience; vocational education; ucation; skills; technological change; wages; Social and economic history; Ekonomisk och social historia;

   Sammanfattning : Sweden experienced a remarkable economic growth in the period 1890-1930, to a large extent due to a very successful adaptation of core elements of the Second Industrial Revolution such as electricity and mechanical engineering. Theoretically this thesis aims at discussing changes in the balance between the relative demand for skilled and unskilled labour during the first phase of the Second Industrial Revolution from two perspectives: the possible degradation of work according to Braverman (1974) and a possible technology-skill complementarity according to Goldin & Katz (1996). LÄS MER

3. 7. Multinationals, employment and wages : microeconomic evidence from Swedish manufacturing

   Författare :Roger Bandick; Pär Hansson; Holger Görg; Örebro universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Foreign acquisitions; labor demand; matching; difference-in difference; multinational enterprises and survival analysis.; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis, consisting of four essays, is to study the effects of multinationals and inward FDI on employment and wage formation in Swedish manufacturing during the 1990s. Paper [1] (co-authored with Patrik Karpaty) investigates the employment effects of foreign acquisitions in acquired firms in Swedish manufacturing during the 1990s. LÄS MER

4. 8. Essays on Wage and Price Formation in Sweden

   Författare :Kent Friberg; Eskil Wadensjö; Henry Ohlsson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; wages; prices; sectoral wage linkages; real wage determination; vector error correction models; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : Study IReal Wage Determination in the Swedish Engineering IndustryThis study uses the monopoly union model to examine the determination of real wages and in particular the effects of active labour market programmes (ALMPs) on real wages in the engineering industry. Quarterly data for the period 1970:1 to 1996:4 are used in a cointegration framework, utilising the Johansen's maximum likelihood procedure. LÄS MER

5. 9. Essays on Macroeconomics: Wage Rigidity and Aggregate Fluctuations

   Författare :Maria Olsson; Mikael Carlsson; Oskar Nordström Skans; Christian Merkl; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Wages; Unemployment; Monetary Non-Neutrality; Collective Bargaining; Production Networks; Micro-to-Macro;

   Sammanfattning : Essay I: I use Swedish micro data to analyze how firms adjusted their labor costs in response to the large drop in aggregate demand during the Great Recession. For identification, I exploit that the recession primarily hit export-dependent firms in Sweden. LÄS MER

7. 10. The effects of markets, managers and peers on worker outcomes

   Författare :Lena Hensvik; Oskar Nordström Skans; Olof Åslund; Erling Barth; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Labor Markets; Wages; School competition; Managers; Co-Workers; Fertility; Gender; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : Essay 1: This essay exploits the entry of private independent high schools in Sweden to examine how local school competition affects the wages and the mobility of teachers in a market with individual wage bargaining. Using rich matched employer-employee panel data covering all high school teachers over a period of 16 years, I show that the entry of private schools is associated with higher teacher salaries, including higher salaries for teachers in public schools. LÄS MER