Vilket EU vill vi ha?
Karlson, N. (Eds.) (2014). Vilket EU vill vi ha?Stockholm: Ratio.
Karlson, N. (Eds.) (2014). Vilket EU vill vi ha?Stockholm: Ratio.
Vilket EU vill vi ha? Det borde vara den avgörande frågan i valet till Europaparlamentet. Men också i den offentliga diskussionen de år som följer.
I Ratios nya forskarantologi Vilket EU vill vi ha? visas att den svenska utrikeshandeln nästan har fördubblats och ökat välståndet med mellan 3 och 20 procent, tack vare EU och den ökade öppenheten. Dessutom har den svenska rättsstaten stärkts, vilket även stärkt den svenska demokratin.
Samtidigt finns flera stora utmaningar som hänger ihop med bristen på väl fungerande gemensamma institutioner på EU-nivå. Det den inre marknaden, men också säkerhets- och miljöpolitiken.
Frågan är om EU ska bejaka mångfald i enhet, genom fri handel, fria marknader och fri rörlighet inom ramen för ett begränsat överstatligt, federalt system? Eller om EU ska fortsätta att utvecklas i centralistisk riktning med fler gemensamma lagar och regler, inom ramen för ett överstatligt, federalt system, utan en given gräns för överstatligheten? Det är den viktiga framtidsfrågan.
2023
Applied Economics Letters, 1-5.
In this note we study how the share of workers in a corporation located in a high gender wage gap country impacts the wage gap in their home country operations. Our findings support the hypothesis that firms with strong intra-firm linkages to a high gender wage gap country also display a relatively large gender wage gap at home.
2023
Rati Working Paper Series.
In this paper, we build upon a monopsony framework, suggested by Card et. al. 2016, which links firm level productivity and rent-sharing to wage inequality. Specifically, our research questions address i) to which extent labor market concentration across firms (within different types of locally situated industries) affects variation in wages among workers within these firms and industries, and ii) how this variation in turn spills over into economy-wide inequality (measured at the level of local labor markets). Using linked employer-employee full population data for Sweden, and an AKM modelling framework to separate between worker- and firm-level heterogeneity, our results suggest that higher firm-level fixed effects (a measure of rent-sharing) is associated with lower labor market employer concentration, something which affects average wage income among firms accordingly. Addressing wage income inequality by applying our model to different segments of the local labor market income distribution, we find that reduced average employer concentration in larger cities accounts for almost all variation in the (positive) link between city size-and wage inequality, except for the largest metropolises where it captures around 30-50 percent of variation depending on the income segment that we focus on.
2022
Small Business Economics 59, 593–610 (2022).
In the race to the South Pole, Roald Amundsen’s expedition covered an equal distance each day, irrespective of weather conditions, while Scott’s pace was erratic. Amundsen won the race and returned without loss of life, while Scott and his men died. In the context of firm growth, the Amundsen hypothesis suggests that smoother growth paths are associated with better performance in subsequent periods. We develop a new method to investigate how firms’ sales growth deviates from their long-run average growth path. Our baseline results suggest that growth path volatility is associated with higher growth of sales and profits, but also with higher exit rates. However, this result is driven by firms with negative growth rates. For positive-growth firms, volatility is negatively associated with both sales growth and survival, providing nuanced support for the Amundsen hypothesis.
The article can be accessed here.