En politik för 150 000 nya företag och 500 000 nya jobb

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Sveriges Akilleshäl är oförmågan att skapa nya jobb. Att en dryg miljon människor i arbetsför ålder vare sig arbetar eller studerar på heltid, enligt SCBs statistik i januari 2006, visar att svensk ekonomi – trots goda resultat i övrigt – inte fungerar som den borde. Under en lång följd av år doldes detta genom en ökning av antalet anställda inom den offentliga, skattefinansierade sektorn. Huvudskälet till avsaknaden av nya riktiga jobb är brister i det svenska företagsklimatet. För att kunna skapa 500 000 nya jobb på fem år krävs fler företag och fler företag som vill anställa. Enligt de beräkningar som redovisas nedan behövs uppemot 150 000 nya företag. Det innebär en fördubbling av antalet nya företag varje år. Alternativt skulle de redan existerande företagen behöva öka antalet sysselsatta med närmare 30 procent.

Ratio Working Paper No. 350: A quickly transforming labour market

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Uddén Sonnegård, E.

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2021

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Ratio Working Paper

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The Covid-19 pandemic has made it clear that the labour market situation can change
extremely rapidly when there is an unexpected exogenous shock to the economy. Even
though the transformation of the labour market as a result of the development of ICT
(Information Communication Technology) industries facilitates more-flexible
conditions, it is now more important than ever for EU Member States to improve the
functioning of their labour markets. Member States need to increase possibilities for
training and retraining throughout peoples’ working lives in order to smooth the
transformation into a digital world of work.

The Effect of Marshallian and Jacobian Knowledge Spillovers on Jobs in the Solar, Wind and Energy Efficiency Sector

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Aldieri, L., Grafström, J., & Vinci, C. P.

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2021

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Energies, 14(14), 4269.

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The purpose of this paper is to establish if Marshallian and Jacobian knowledge spillovers affect job creation in the green energy sector. Whether these two effects exist is important for the number of jobs created in related fields and jobs pushed away in other sectors. In the analysis, the production efficiency, in terms of jobs and job spillovers, from inventions in solar, wind and energy efficiency, is explored through data envelopment analysis (DEA), based on the Malmquist productivity index, and tobit regression. A panel dataset of American and European firms over the period of 2002–2017 is used. The contribution to the literature is to show the role of the spillovers from the same technology sector (Marshallian externalities), and of the spillovers from more diversified activity (Jacobian externalities). Since previous empirical evidence concerning the innovation effects on the production efficiency is yet weak, the paper attempts to bridge this gap. The empirical findings suggest negative Marshallian externalities, while Jacobian externalities have no statistical impact on the job creation process. The findings are of strategic importance for governments who are developing industrial strategies for renewable energy.

Aldieri, L., Grafström, J., & Vinci, C. P. (2021). The Effect of Marshallian and Jacobian Knowledge Spillovers on Jobs in the Solar, Wind and Energy Efficiency Sector. Energies, 14(14), 4269.

Ratio Working Paper No. 341: Recruitment of scarce competences to rural regions: Policies to promote recruitment

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Nyström, K.

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2020

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This paper studies the perceived difficulty of recruiting scarce competences to rural regions. Furthermore, the role of policy in facilitating and enhancing recruitment to and better skills matching in rural regions is discussed. Based on a survey targeted to the business sections in Swedish municipalities, the results show that recruitment is perceived to be difficult in both rural and non-rural regions. However, recruitment problems in the public sector are more pronounced in rural municipalities. Nevertheless, recruitment to the public and business sectors are perceived to be equally difficult in rural regions. Both rural municipalities and non-rural municipalities state that the difficulty of recruiting the right skills results in a lack of skills matching and constitutes an obstacle to growth. Which policies can help remedy recruitment problems in rural regions? The pecuniary incentive of writing off student debt is perceived to be the most promising policy, but respondents also believe that non-pecuniary support such as relocation support for accompanying persons and tandem recruitment should be implemented to a greater extent. Finally, the need for flexibility and policies that can be adapted to the regional demand for labour are stressed. This regards for example the adaption of education programmes to local needs and rules and regulations.

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