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- Hansson, Pär, 1957-
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Relative demand for skills in Swedish manufacturing : trade or technology?
- 2000
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Ingår i: Review of International Economics. - : Blackwell Publishing. - 0965-7576 .- 1467-9396. ; 8:3, s. 533-555
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The rate of change in the share of skilled labor has increased steadily over the past 35 years in Swedish manufacturing. A closer inspection of the period after 1970 indicates that, while relative supply changes of skilled labor seem to have been the main driving force behind the growing skill shares in manufacturing industries over the period 1970-85, an acceleration in the relative demand for skills appears to have propelled higher skill shares during the late 1980s and at the beginning of the 1990s. Consistent with such a development is the finding of an increasing degree of complementarity between knowledge capital and skilled labor, and that Swedish manufacturing firms, in recent years, have invested heavily in R and D. There is also some support for the belief that intensified competition from the South has increased the relative demand for skilled labor. However, the impact appears to be small and essentially driven by the textile industry.
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- Lundin, Nannan, et al.
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International Trade and Inter-Industry Wage Structure in Swedish Manufacturing : Evidence from Matched Employer–Employee Data
- 2009
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Ingår i: Review of International Economics. - Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell. - 0965-7576 .- 1467-9396. ; 17:1, s. 87-102
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study examines the inter-industry wage structure in Swedish manufacturing, using matched employer–employee data for the period 1996 to 2000. First, we used detailed individual and job characteristics to estimate industry-specific and time-varying wage premiums. Secondly, we investigated the impact of international trade on wage premiums, controlling for effects of domestic competition and technical progress. Our results suggest that industries that face intensive import competition from low-income countries have lower wage premiums. Surprisingly, the wage premiums are not related to export intensities. Furthermore, technical progress, measured by investment in R&D activity, appears to enhance inter-industry wage premiums.
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- Segerstrom, Paul, et al.
(författare)
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Trade liberalization and productivity growth
- 2010
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Ingår i: Review of International Economics. - : Wiley: 24 months. - 0965-7576 .- 1467-9396. ; 18:2, s. 207-228
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents a trade model with firm-level productivity differences and R&D-driven growth. Trade liberalization causes the least productive firms to exit but also slows the development of new products. The overall effect on productivity growth depends on the size of intertemporal knowledge spillovers in R&D. When these spillovers are relatively weak, then trade liberalization promotes productivity growth in the short run and makes consumers better off in the long run. However when these spillovers are relatively strong, then trade liberalization retards productivity growth in the short run and makes consumers worse off in the long run.
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- Baum, Christopher, et al.
(författare)
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The impact of offshoring on technical change : Evidence from Swedish manufacturing firms
- 2022
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Ingår i: Review of International Economics. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0965-7576 .- 1467-9396. ; 30:3, s. 796-818
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines the link between offshoring and technical change measured by patent and total factor productivity in order to sort out the causality. It applies instrumental variable and matching approaches on a panel of more than 7000 Swedish manufacturing firms over the period 2001?2014, and identify offshoring-related intermediate imports by the United Nations Broad Economic Categories system. Accounting for self-selection and reverse causality, no impact of offshoring on TFP is found and only weak effect on patenting.
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- Cao, Jin, et al.
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The interaction between macroprudential and monetary policies: The cases of Norway and Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: Review of International Economics. - : Wiley. - 1467-9396 .- 0965-7576. ; 29:1, s. 87-116
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To shed light on the interaction between macroprudential and monetary policies, we study the inward transmission of foreign monetary policy in conjunction with domestic macroprudential and monetary policies in Norway and Sweden. Using detailed bank‐level data, we show how Norwegian and Swedish banks’ lending reacts to monetary policy surprises arising abroad, controlling for the domestic macroprudential stance and the interaction between monetary and macroprudential policies. In both countries, domestic macroprudential policy helps mitigate the effects arising from foreign monetary surprises.
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- Davidson, Carl, et al.
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Global Engagement, Complex Tasks, and the Distribution of Occupational Employment
- 2016
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Ingår i: Review of International Economics. - : Wiley. - 1467-9396 .- 0965-7576. ; 24:4, s. 717-736
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Building on a framework introduced by Chaney and Ossa (2013), we construct a task-based model of the firm’s choice of occupational inputs to examine how that choice varies with greater global engagement. We depart from Chaney and Ossa by assuming that more complex tasks are more costly to complete. Within the structure of our model, firms skew employment toward occupations engaged in more complex tasks. Moreover, the distribution of employment is more skewed for more globalized firms, while it is less skewed for larger firms. These results are consistent with our empirical findings in Davidson, et al (2015).
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- Forslid, Rikard, et al.
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Big is Beautiful when Exporting
- 2016
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Ingår i: Review of International Economics. - : Wiley. - 0965-7576 .- 1467-9396. ; 24:2, s. 330-343
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper starts out from the observation that the export ratios of firms (export to sales ratios) vary greatly among firms and that they are systematically higher for larger exporters. We relate the difference in export ratios to firm-level differences in transport costs. In accordance with the data, we assume that freight rates are a function of firm-level export volumes. We test our model using Japanese manufacturing firm-level data. We first estimate the elasticity of the freight rate with respect to firm-level export volumes at the sector level. When feeding these estimates back into the model, it can explain more than 50% of the variation in firm-level export ratios.
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- Klügl, Franziska, 1970-, et al.
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Double whammy? Trade and automation in engineering services
- 2024
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Ingår i: Review of International Economics. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0965-7576 .- 1467-9396.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper studies the role of trade for the joint uptake of AI-enabled automation in manufacturing and engineering. It develops an agent-based model (ABM) where the agents are heterogeneous manufacturers and engineering firms. The ABM features two technology-related business models: engineering as a face-to-face consultancy service and engineering as automated software. The software adoption rate follows an S-shaped curve for manufacturers and a boom and bust cycle for engineers. In the early phase, shortage of engineers constrains AI uptake, while engineers become abundant when AI is fully adopted. Trade affects the cut-off productivity level at which manufacturers switch technology, the shape of the adoption rate curve, and the incentives for engineers to develop software. Bulky transactions and different productivity distributions across countries are drivers of trade in their own right.
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- Lundborg, Per, 1950-
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Refugees’ employment integration in Sweden : cultural distance and labor market performance
- 2013
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Ingår i: Review of International Economics. - : Wiley. - 0965-7576 .- 1467-9396. ; 21:2, s. 219-232
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper is the first to specifically focus on the integration of refugee immigrants into the Swedish labor market. Using highly detailed register data on blue collar workers it is shown that refugees' employment lags that of natives basically for their whole life time in Sweden. Time in Sweden reduces drastically the unemployment days, though from very high initial levels. Refugees from culturally distant Iran/Iraq and Horn of Africa experience considerably more days in unemployment than refugees from the less distant Eastern Europe and Latin America. The differences are large during the first 20 years in Sweden but some convergence occurs thereafter. Following a business cycle upturn this paper finds that the reduction of refugees' unemployment is half of that of natives'. Since refugees arrive at different ages, high numbers of unemployment days are recorded also for relatively old refugees with the highest number for those above 30.
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