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- Andersson, Fredrik, et al.
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Speglingar av en förvaltning i förändring: Reformeringen av Försäkringskassan
- 2012
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Svensk statsförvaltning genomgår, precis som privat sektor, ständigt förändringar och omstruktureringar, drivna av olika samhällstrender, ledarskapsidéer och politiska styrfilosofier. Vid dessa förändringar ställs verksamheten inför vägval som på olika sätt kan påverka dess förmåga att leva upp till omgivningens krav och förväntningar. Samtidigt finns inte utrymme för risktagande, eftersom förvaltningens agerande och beslut kan vara avgörande för individers försörjning och framtid. Det ställer stora krav på dessa myndigheter, som balanserar ekonomimål, demokratimål och rättssäkerhetsmål. Denna bok avser att spegla olika organisatoriska dilemman och utmaningar som myndigheter i svensk och internationell statsförvaltning kan möta. Detta sker med utgångspunkt i en studie av Försäkringskassans enmyndighetsreform år 2005 och dess förändringsarbete under åren därefter. Bokens författare kommer från tre olika ämnesområden: företagsekonomi, nationalekonomi och statsvetenskap. Samtliga är knutna till Lunds universitet och till forskningsprogrammet ”Från många till en?” (2008-2012). Programmet finansierades av Försäkringskassan, men genomfördes självständigt. Med boken hoppas författarna kunna öka förståelsen – och intresset - för frågor om organisation, styrning och ledning i en statsförvaltning i förändring.
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- Andersson, Fredrik, 1972-
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Causes and Labor Market Consequences of Producer Heterogeneity
- 2003
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Essay I studies establishment-level employment changes in the Swedish Manufacturing sector over the 1972-96 period. The results show that modest changes in the aggregated employment record have been the resulting sum of rather large gross flows of jobs and that this constant reshuffling of jobs has important implications for the workforce and is closely related to process of economic growth. Shifts in employment across industries or other observable characteristic of establishments cannot explain the different employment outcomes across establishments. Essay II (with Altin Vejsiu) studies the determinants of plant closures in Swedish Manufacturing. From our theoretical framework we derive and empirically test hypotheses regarding the linkages between the probability of plant failure and industry-specific characteristics; local labor market conditions; and plant-specific sources of heterogeneity, including insider mechanisms in wage determination, plant specific human capital, selection mechanisms and technology vintage effects. Our results suggest that all these factors matter in ways that by and large conform to the a priori hypotheses. Essay III investigates the importance of access to product markets in explaining the spatial wage distribution by estimating the parameters of a spatial labor demand model. The model takes into account the effects of sorting of heterogeneous labor and heterogeneity in transportation costs. The results are consistent with the idea that increasing returns to scale together with transportation costs is an important driving force behind urban agglomeration and sizeable spatial wage differentials.Essay IV (with Harry Holzer and Julia Lane) presents a dynamic analysis of workers who persistently have low earnings over a period of three or more years. Some of these workers manage to escape from this low-earning status over subsequent years, while many do not. We analyze the characteristics of persons and especially of their firms and jobs that enable some to improve their earnings status over time.
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- Andersson, Fredrik, 1974-, et al.
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The Characteristics of Family Firms : Exploiting Information on Ownership, Kinship and Governance Using Total Population Data
- 2018
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Ingår i: Small Business Economics. - : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. - 0921-898X .- 1573-0913. ; 51:3, s. 539-556
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Family firms are often considered characteristically different from non-family firms. However, our understanding of family firms suffers from an inability to identify them in total population data; information is rarely available regarding owners, their kinship, and their involvement in firm governance. We present a method for identifying domiciled family firms using register data; this method offers greater accuracy than previous methods. We apply this method to Swedish data concerning firm ownership, governance, and kinship from 2004 to 2010. We find that the family firm is a significant organizational form, contributing over one third of all employment and gross domestic product (GDP). Family firms are common in most industries and range in size. Furthermore, we find that, compared to private non-family firms, family firms have fewer total assets, employment, and sales and carry higher solidity, although family firms are more profitable. These differences diminish with firm size. We conclude that the term “family firm” includes a large variety of firms, and we call for increased attention to their heterogeneity.
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- Wahlqvist, Evelina, 1979, et al.
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Socialförsäkringar behövs
- 2009
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Ingår i: Sydsvenska dagbladet, 23 oktober.
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Andersson, Fredrik N G
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Hur bör vi reglera självständiga centralbanker? Riksbanken och den penningpolitiska verktygslådan.
- 2024
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Ingår i: Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift. - 0039-0747. ; 126:1, s. 27-52
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How should we regulate independent central banks? The Riksbank and its monetary policy toolkit .Within what boundaries are independent central banks allowed to operate? This question is seldom discussed but has gained prominence due to the changes in monetary policy since the 2008/09 financial crisis. Notably, the Swedish central bank, the Riksbank, along with other central banks, has expanded its monetary policy toolkit to include so-called quantitative easing—primarily the purchase of securities, mainly bonds. Originally conceived as crisis instruments, these balance sheet measures have increasingly been embraced as monetary policy tools for stabilizing both the economic cycle and inflation. A growing body of literature suggests that these measures carry numerous adverse side-effects on the macroeconomy, and risk extending monetary policy beyond the original constraints set when the Riksbank gained independence in the 1990s. This article problematizes this evolution and raises the question of whether the monetary policy framework needs to be updated to limit the discretionary space of an independent Riksbank. The article concludes with a discussion on what potential reforms to this framework might entail.
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- Andersson, Fredrik, 1974-, et al.
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Outsourcing Public Services : Contractibility, Cost, and Quality
- 2019
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Ingår i: CESifo Economic Studies. - Örebro : Oxford University Press. - 1610-241X .- 1612-7501. ; 65:4, s. 349-372
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- We review the literature on public sector outsourcing to explore if the theoretical predictions from the incomplete contracts literature hold up to recent empirical evidence. Guided by theory, we arrange services according to the type and magnitude of their contractibility problems. The empirical studies point at rather favourable outsourcing outcomes, in terms of costs and quality, for services without severe contracting problems. The picture is more mixed for services with tougher contracting problems, with the weight of the evidence in favour of public provision. This difference between services is largely in line with the property-rights framework and theories of incomplete contracts.
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- Adjei, Evans, et al.
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Regional labour market effects of immigration on low-skilled workers: the case of Sweden 1990–2003
- 2021
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Ingår i: International Journal of Social Economics. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 0306-8293 .- 1758-6712. ; 48:3, s. 456-476
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of immigration on the labour market outcomes of low-educated natives (i.e. residents without a university diploma). Using the labour market competition theory, which argues that the labour market effects of natives depend on the skill set of immigrants, the paper addresses whether immigrants are complementary to or substitutes for native workers.Design/methodology/approach: Longitudinal matched employer–employee data on Sweden are used to estimate how low-educated natives, in regions experiencing the greatest influx of refugees from the Balkan wars, responded to this supply shock with regard to real wages, employment and job mobility between 1990 and 2003.Findings: First, the analysis shows that low-educated native workers respond to the arrival of immigrants with an increase in real wages. Second, although employment prospects in general worsened for low-skilled workers in most regions, this is not attributable to the regions experiencing the largest supply shock. Third, there are indications that low-skilled natives in immigration-rich regions are more likely to change workplace, particularly in combination with moving upwards in the wage distribution.Originality/value: Rather than seeing an emergence of the commonly perceived displacement mechanism when an economy is subject to a supply shock, the regional findings suggest that high inflows of immigrants tend to induce a mechanism that pulls native workers upwards in the wage distribution. This is important, as the proportion of immigrants is seldom evenly distributed within a nation.
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- Di Clemente, Riccardo, et al.
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Understanding european integration with bipartite networks of comparative advantage
- 2022
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Ingår i: PNAS Nexus. - : Oxford University Press. - 2752-6542. ; 1:5
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Core objectives of European common market integration are convergence and economic growth, but these are hampered by redundancy, and value chain asymmetries. The challenge is how to harmonize labor division to reach global competitiveness, meanwhile bridging productivity differences across the EU. We develop a bipartite network approach to trace pairwise co-specialization by applying the revealed comparative advantage method within and between the EU15 and Central and Eastern European (CEE). This approach assesses redundancies and the division of labor in the EU at the level of industries and countries. We find significant co-specialization among CEE countries but a diverging specialization between EU15 and CEE. Productivity increases in those CEE industries that have co-specialized with other CEE countries after EU accession, while co-specialization across CEE and EU15 countries is less related to productivity growth. These results show that a division of sectoral specialization can lead to productivity convergence between EU15 and CEE countries.
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- Andersson, Fredrik CA
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Interest Groups and Government Policy. A Political Economy Analysis
- 2003
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Politics induce economic agents to organise into special interest groups (SIGs) and act strategically to adjust their economic decisions and to conduct rent-seeking activities in order do improve the situation inflicted on them by policy. This thesis examines, in four essays, different forms of SIG influence on public policy in different institutional contexts. The two first essays examine two related models with institutionalised political participation in the form of corporatism, where SIGs have the possibility of affect public policy from the inside. Essays three and four, on the other hand, examine the contrast, where SIGs on their own initiative, try to affect public policy from the outside. There are several possibilities to affect public policy from the outside. The three major activities undertaken by SIGs are those intended to educate and convince policymakers of the own group’s position; to educate and inform the general public; and contributing financially to political candidates. Campaign contributions have been regulated for long in western democracies. A number of European states have limited the spending while the United States have limited the donations. Despite the regulations, money and politics are closely related, particularly in the United States, though it is also a well-known phenomenon in e.g. Italy, United Kingdom, Japan, India and Brazil. The two last essays in this thesis examine effects of the provision of selective information to voters, in combination with financial contributions to politicians. The first essay, Corporatism and Economic Performance, analyses the effects on economic performance of a corporatist social organisation in a union government game. The analysis shows that a corporatist economy is more efficient in a stable environment, but in a volatile environment the results from corporatism are ambiguous. This indicates that international conditions might be important for the effects of corporatism. The second essay, Corporatism, Preferences and Economic Performance, examines the effect of a restriction that the unemployment benefit level cannot exceed the net wage rate, in a union government game. Given this restriction a corporatist social organisation induces lower net wages. The results of the game in terms of benefits and employment are however, ambiguous and depend critically on the preferences of the union and not on the preferences of the government. The third essay, Lobbying for Growth in an Economy with Inequality, analyses the relation between inequality and growth. A situation where SIGs can affect voters by providing selective information is compared with a situation where SIGs are also allowed to contribute financially to politicians. Depending on how responsive voters are to the use of campaign funds in the election process, information and financial contributions may serve as complements. If so, rent-seeking is less probable to be a hindrance to growth when campaign contributions are allowed. The fourth essay, Information and Contributions in Elections with Multiple Lobbies, examines a probabilistic voting model with two competing candidates and multiple SIGs. It is shown that opportunistic politicians maximise the utility of strategic voters, the impressionable voters’ expected utility and campaign contributions. Moreover, competition among SIGs reduce both the amount spent on information and the financial contributions. This indicates that competition from a SIG with limited financial resources can have a substantial effect on the possibilities for financially strong SIGs to affect policy.
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