Resume

• 2009

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  Dissertation\nBjuggren

  C. M. (2013). “Family Matters – Essays on Family Firms and Employment Protection”

  Linköping Studies in Arts and Science No. 592

  Linköping University.

  Economics

  Linköping University

• 2007

  BS

  Economics

  Stockholm University

• 2000

  Grant from the Ratio Institute and Ragnar Söderberg’s Foundations to visit George Mason University

  Doctoral research grant from Sparbankernas forskningsstiftelse

  and 2012

  Bachelor and Master

  Political Science

  Lunds universitet

• Entrepreneurship

  Lecturing

  Research

  Economic Research

  Microeconomics

  Teaching

  Economics

  Stata

  Applied Economics

  Data Analysis

  Econometrics

  Labor Economics

  Statistics

  A Note on Employment and Gross Domestic Product in Swedish Family-Owned Businesses: A Descriptive Analysis

  A Note on Employment and Gross Domestic Product in Swedish Family-Owned Businesses: A Descriptive Analysis

  Using Self-employment as Proxy for Entrepreneurship: Some Empirical Caveats

  An International Cohort Comparison of Size Effects on Job Growth

  Effective Corporate Tax Rates and the Size Distribution of Firms

  High-growth firms and family ownership

  In this study I find that employment in family firms is less sensitive to performance and product market fluctuations. I show this by investigating aggregate fluctuations at the industry level as well as idiosyncratic firm level shocks. By differentiating between temporary and permanent shocks at the firm level

  I find that family firms appear to be less anxious to translate temporary shocks into changes in employment. This supports the idea that family firms are able to offer their employees implicit employment protection. Family firms are believed to have longer time horizons

  and are as owners more easily identified with their company and its actions. These are features that could make family firms more cautious in terms of adjusting their employment. Unlike previous contributions

  I am able to identify all family firms

  both private and public

  by using full population data from tax registers.

  Sensitivity to shocks and implicit employment protection in family firms

  Current theoretical predictions of how employment protection affects firm productivity are ambiguous. In this paper

  I study the effect of employment protection rules on labor productivity using Swedish register data. A reform of employment protection rules in 2001 enabled small firms with fewer than eleven employees to exempt two workers from the seniority rules. I treat this reform as a natural experiment. My results indicate that increased labor market flexibility increases labor productivity. This increase is explained by total factor productivity and capital intensity rather than the educational level of workers.

  Employment Protection and Labor Productivity

  Gender Differences in Optimism

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  Carl Magnus

  Fogelman College of Business & Economics

  University of Memphis

  George Mason University

  The Ratio Institute

  European University Institute

  Stockholm School of Economics

  Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)

  University of Missouri - St. Louis

  Stockholm School of Economics

  European University Institute

  visiting PhD

  Florence Area

  Italy

  University of Missouri - St. Louis

  Fogelman College of Business & Economics

  University of Memphis

  Greater Memphis Area

  Assistant Professor

  The Ratio Institute

  Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)

  Research Faculty

  Stockholm

  Sweden

  Economics

  George Mason University

  Swedish

  German

  English

  Marie Curie Fellowship – Forte International Postdoc Programme

  Feb 2015–Jan 2018