This thesis consists of an introduction and three stand-alone essays. In the introduction I discuss the commonalities between the three essays. Essay I charts the the main political cleavages among 59 Swedish unions and business organizations. The main conclusion is that there appear to exist two economic sources of political cleavage: The traded versus the nontraded divide and the labor versus capital divide. Essay II suggests a political rationale for why strikes have been more common in those OECD countries where the legislature is elected in single member districts (e.g. France, Great Britain) than where it was elected by proportional representation (e.g. Sweden, Netherlands). In Essay III I present a theoretical model of political supp...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2004.Includes bibliograp...
This dissertation consists of two chapters on topics in political economy. In the first chapter, usi...
This thesis consists of four independent chapters. The first two chapters cover topics in the fields...
This dissertation consists of four research papers and an introduction. The overarching theme for th...
This thesis consists of three self-contained essays dealing with different aspects of macroeconomics...
This thesis combines a number of studies about the changing landscape of organized labor. Ever since...
This thesis comprises essays on political economy and industrial organization. The rest two chapters...
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the transition toward a market economy from a political...
The distribution of economic resources has long been a central tenet of politics. In recent decades,...
This thesis looks at the politics of labor market policy in the postwar period in the advanced indus...
Re-allocation of labor from less productive sectors to more productive sectors is essential in attai...
The public defense will be held at the School of Business, hall U006, starting at 13.00. Link to th...
This dissertation contains three chapters on the political economy and economic history of labor uni...
The focus of this dissertation spans the fields of international trade theory and political economy....
This book focuses on some of the most important political-economic changes in advanced industrialize...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2004.Includes bibliograp...
This dissertation consists of two chapters on topics in political economy. In the first chapter, usi...
This thesis consists of four independent chapters. The first two chapters cover topics in the fields...
This dissertation consists of four research papers and an introduction. The overarching theme for th...
This thesis consists of three self-contained essays dealing with different aspects of macroeconomics...
This thesis combines a number of studies about the changing landscape of organized labor. Ever since...
This thesis comprises essays on political economy and industrial organization. The rest two chapters...
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the transition toward a market economy from a political...
The distribution of economic resources has long been a central tenet of politics. In recent decades,...
This thesis looks at the politics of labor market policy in the postwar period in the advanced indus...
Re-allocation of labor from less productive sectors to more productive sectors is essential in attai...
The public defense will be held at the School of Business, hall U006, starting at 13.00. Link to th...
This dissertation contains three chapters on the political economy and economic history of labor uni...
The focus of this dissertation spans the fields of international trade theory and political economy....
This book focuses on some of the most important political-economic changes in advanced industrialize...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2004.Includes bibliograp...
This dissertation consists of two chapters on topics in political economy. In the first chapter, usi...
This thesis consists of four independent chapters. The first two chapters cover topics in the fields...